Morgan Freeman says he’s no rugby fan

London: Hollywood star Morgan Freeman insists he’s not a rugby fan, despite starring in a new film based on the sport. The 72-year-old Oscar winner starred as Nelson Mandela in ‘Invictus’, a film about the sport’s famous 1995 World Cup in South Africa, directed by Clint Eastwood. Freeman says he still knows ``little to nothing`` about rugby. “I wasn’t a rugby fan - I didn’t know beans about rugby. I still know little to nothing about rugby,” a news daily quoted him as saying. “At home sometimes when you get down to the World Series or National Football League play-offs or the NBA play-offs, I might watch. But I’m not an avid sports fan at all,`` he added. He also insists that the movie did not concentrate on rugby. ``It isn’t based on rugby. Everyone keeps saying it’s based on rugby - it incorporates rugby, but it’s based on Mandela,`` he said. The actor also joked that he did not like working with his co-star Matt Damon - who plays South Africa’s World Cup-winning captain Francois Pienaar. ``We don’t get on all that good. He’s got a big head, he thinks he’s good-looking and all that. We didn’t get on all that well at all as a matter of fact,`` he said. Damon said it was an honour to be starring opposite Freeman - who was picked by Mandela himself to play him. ANI