"He just said 'doughy,'" Damon told CNN at the film's North American premiere during the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month. "He didn't want [Whitacre] to have any hard edges, that's why I had a little prosthetic on the end of my nose and stuff like that. Whitacre is a corporate executive at an agricultural giant who helps the FBI expose a price-fixing plot. Steven wanted him to look kind of hard to define in a way ... It was just a kind of a metaphor for the character himself ... kind of hard to define, tough to pin down." Soderbergh was also looking to break convention with his approach to the typically po-faced whistle-blower genre. Full Article at CNN