Be careful, everyone. CB has already threatened me with her slut-dagger but I convinced her that I had slut-armor (and full slut-shank insurance, THANKS OBAMA). So she’s armed and on the hunt for anyone trying to claim her Matt Damon. I’m including some photos of Matty D from the past few weeks – he’s been getting pap’d with kids. It’s weird, because that usually never happens. Matty also spoke to In Touch Weekly about how he’s different than his big-name bro-friends like George Clooney and Brad Pitt:
Matt Damon’s closest friends are some of Hollywood’s most famous actors — but in an exclusive interview with In Touch, the star reveals he’s much more down-to-earth than his A-list pals.
“I’m not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. When those guys walk into a room, everything changes,” the actor explains to In Touch of two of his closest friends in Hollywood. “There’s something more ‘everyman’ about me.”
And speaking of his pal George, Matt tells the mag he couldn’t be happier for George and his fiancée.
“I’m thrilled that he met Amal [Alamuddin] and that they’re as happy as they are.”
I kind of agree with him. While I love Matty D (*dodges flying slut-dagger*), he IS more of an “everyman.” Bloke-ish, if you will. Guys like Matty and Chris Evans are the kind of guy that you would meet in college, or that would fix your roof in Boston. Granted, they would be “that hot guy who fixed your roof.” Or “that sexy neurotic guy you banged for a week in college.” While Brad Pitt might have had that “just a normal guy from Missouri” thing happening at one point, he’s not that guy anymore. People always say that about Brad too – the room changes when he’s there. Everybody notices him, everybody stares. George is just… George. Women will always be panting for George, no matter what. Matty could walk into a room and you’re like, “Oh, hey. ‘Sup?”
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
EXCUSE ME, Kaiser. You are appropriating my word. I have sole use of “bloke”, thankyouverymuch. Although, I will concede that Matty D is somewhat blokeish.
I actually thought “Hey, that’s Sixer’s word!” when I read “bloke” here.
Err…. don’t come to Australia then.
Or New Zealand…
Too right. Matt D will always be awesome in my eyes.
He’s my favorite of the three. Although Brad has been catching up to him lately. They seem so self aware. Not humble brag, Clooney style. George is so blah. Do not get the hype. He’s always George Clooney. At least Brad and Matt had few good parts before his fame blinded their acting.
I don’t find George attractive at all. I don’t understand his appeal.
@Stef I agree with you, George doesn’t do anything for me. I wouldn’t say George is ugly, but I don’t find him gorgeous.
Agreed – George is always that actor from Facts of Life or ER. Not someone to go crazy over – the thing I like about them (Brad, Matt, etc) the most is that they seem to have these really strong male friendships which is cool.
One of the few actors of his caliber who can be called a garbage person at the Golden Globes in front of his peers and not throw a tantrum, nor have the audience cringe with embarrassment.
And I love that you probably can’t name any of his kids or picture them in your head because he doesn’t do the pap ho stroll. His best buddy and neighbor, on the other hand…
I like him for precisely these reasons. I just think he would be easy to have a conversation with, without feeling like you were talking to some demi-god. I also admire that keeps things quiet in his life. It can be done, H’wood.
Absolutely. He seems inexplicably … normal. There are so few of him in Hollywood, so very few. He does seem like he doesn’t take himself too seriously. Others claim they don’t but that usually such bs. I love him especially for that.
Love your comment. Both about his graciousness and ability to be a good sport, and about not knowing who his kids are.
Yep, those pictures above are honestly the first pictures I’ve ever seen of his kids. I’m not even sure how many he has, boys or girls, and I can’t name any of them. I know the information and images are out there, but you’d have to specifically go looking. On the other hand I know so damn much about the Affleck kids and that’s with me actually going out out of my way to try and filter that stuff out.
Love Matt, but he is def no brad!! But then, who is! Brad….my forever, ever, and ever dong!!!!!! George…..blah!
A lot is to be said by who these men end up dating marrying.
Brad became more of this amazing man when he got with Dame Angie. George was never taken too seriously because he always had a new award season clister who needed a depserate makeover.
Matt got with a bartender with a child already. You don’t really hear about movie stars doing that and having it work with minimal drama.
He seems very normal and doesn’t buy into his own hype. I bet if someone offered him the role of Batman he’d laugh at the offer and politely refuse out of respect to the character.
I think Damon is rather bland and forgettable as an actor and not very good one either. And his personal life does not sound interesting either, I know barely anything about him. So I have never know why he is a star. But maybe people like him because they feel he is relatable and nice everyman?
@Chinoiserie, who wrote: “I think Damon is rather bland and forgettable as an actor and not very good one either. And his personal life does not sound interesting either, I know barely anything about him. So I have never know why he is a star. But maybe people like him because they feel he is relatable and nice everyman?”
I should first issue this caveat that Celebitchy and I have the same level of intense love for Matty D, so please don’t take this the wrong way. 🙂
It’s your opinion, and I respect that, but … Bland and forgettable? Really? He’s one of the few actors who is great with accents (he ‘nailed’ one of the hardest accents in “Invictus” – South Afrikaner) and is genuinely liked and respected by his peers for his acting ability.
And now I’m curious. What films have you seen with Matt Damon (he has acted in 66, has been ‘uncredited’ in two and will be again in Christopher Nolan’s film “Interstellar”) and why would knowing “more about his personal life” ratchet up his ‘star’ appeal for you?
You are from the country Damonastan. That’s cool. I’d visit.
There is virtually nothing bland or forgettable about his acting.
Subtle?
Yes, you must mean that he has a subtle acting style.
Great actor and seems like a really cool guy.
Nuanced is the word I’d use. His performance as Colin Sullivan in The Departed was a brilliant example of profound expression through slight yet precise gestures.
@Chinoiserie Did you see him in the Talented Mr. Ripley? He was quite chilling, I think it was his best work. Also, in The Good Shepherd he was very good as well.
i agree
i also think he is very odd looking, he has a cro magnon brow
Totally agree.. he’s like Leo DiCaprio for me.. boring, overrated, just dulls-ville. I’ll never understand the hype. Altho, Matt at least does sound like a pretty cool guy.
I emphatically disagree with you.
http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000354/
No offense to Brad Pitt or George Clooney (they do have that certain charisma), but Matt Damon has more talent in his little pinky than BP or GC combined.
I’ve seen him at few Sox games and in Harvard Square. He really does blend right in, but he looks like every third guy around here so that’s not so difficult to do. He was very nice to the people who recognized him.
To Do List:
Build time machine.
Go back in time.
Do better at SATs
Go to Harvard.
Hang out on Harvard Square.
Watch for Matt Damon look alikes
Ha!
Oh, Jayne, take me with you!
yes!
IN Harvard Square, not “on” 😉
But pickiness aside, I loved your comment.
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If only one really could.Oh the things I would change!
And of the three, my money’s on the bloke, Mr. Damon, as being the most attentive husband/ fiancé of the three. I’d take him anyday over the other two. (BTW Kaiser – I’m one of those who does not pant after George anymore – I’d run in the other direction.)
Many of us stopped panting over George sometime around Sarah Larson or maybe it was Elizabeta.
Yes – the panting, for me, ended with Elizabeta. The running in the other direction started with Amal.
why is he talking to in touch weekly? it’s right behind the enquirer for validity.
If Matt gave an “exclusive” interview to In Touch, then something has gone terribly wrong. No one with any self respect speaks directly to this tabloid. They also have a way of re-hashing the same stuff from old interviews and putting their name on it. Hopefully, they are just saying this and it was at a general press stop or on a press line for a film premier, then everyone can say “exclusive”. Matt is nice, but forgettable.
Yeah most of the time if an actor cooperates with a tabloid it’s because they have dirt on them. Hmmm. Hopefully they’re taking quotes from an old interview. If not then maybe something non boring about him will come out soon.
that’s what i was alluding to in my post above. got something on matt?
also being pap’d with his kids isn’t a good sign considering the celeb is usually the one calling for the pics to be taken
they dont research at all, so they dont have any dirt on him. they make everything up and get sued a lot. in europe (the mag belongs to Bauer, a german company) they lose all lawsuits, but america has different rules for celebs, you can basically libel any public person without consequences.
a blackmail interview would also involve more private stuff and not him saying stuff that is so obvious.
Yeah it seems sort of fishy. I love Matt and like that he doesn’t parade his kids for the paps, so this is sort of disappointing. Hoping it’s a faked interview and the paps just got lucky with the pics.
@TK, who wrote: “also being pap’d with his kids isn’t a good sign considering the celeb is usually the one calling for the pics to be taken”
Well, you know what they say … a picture says a thousand words. Look at Matt’s face in the second picture down. He is ‘not’ a happy camper and seems to be aware of the camera, but isn’t thrilled about it. The third picture looks older because he still has much of the muscle on him from when he bulked up for “Elysium.”
This man has successfully remained out of the limelight for well over a decade. He’s been in Los Angeles for nearly two years now and these are the only pictures we’ve seen of him that wasn’t ‘work’ related … other than a picture with Ben Affleck when they went out to dinner right after he moved to L.A. In ‘that’ picture, Matt is turned away from the camera and is trying to hurry up and get in the car, while Ben is posing and talking to the Paps.
I realize people want there to be dirt in Matty D’s life because he’s such a nice, normal guy (and people don’t seem to want ‘nice’ in movie stars), but sometimes a cigar really ‘is’ just a cigar.
All interview quotes seem to be from months or years ago. It wasn’t an original interview. And all of the paparazzi pictures are from the past few weeks.
@Emma
Yeah–I don’t get the hate. I remember that people used to be rough on his wife, saying she was a golddigger. If she’s a golddigger, then I wish all the rest of the HW golddiggers would act JUST LIKE HER. We know her name. That’s it. We don’t know where she works, if she works, if she’s wearing underwear or not, etc. She is one of the most low key golddiggers I’ve ever seen in HW.
@Virgilia Coriolanus, who wrote: “Yeah–I don’t get the hate. I remember that people used to be rough on his wife, saying she was a golddigger. If she’s a golddigger, then I wish all the rest of the HW golddiggers would act JUST LIKE HER. We know her name. That’s it. We don’t know where she works, if she works, if she’s wearing underwear or not, etc. She is one of the most low key golddiggers I’ve ever seen in HW.”
Agreed. I also never really understand all the shade at Luci for being a bartender. It’s like there was automatically some kind of lewd and lascivious connotation associated with her working in a bar. One would think the fact that Luci had such a normal, regular job would garner her some respect here. But I have a feeling if Matt had met Luci at Sak’s instead, the disdain would have been the same. Only the shade would have been “She’s just a golddigging ‘sales clerk!” Sad.
It seems to me that she and Matty D work hard at keeping their family life as normal as possible. If Luci was only about the money and attention that comes with being Mrs. Matthew Paige Damon, we would know it by now.
He is, and that’s one of his strengths as an actor. I think he’s one of the best of our generation, because he is so neutral as a human being. Affleck, Clooney, Pitt, et al, never quite get complete away from themselves, but Damon can.
I absolutely love him. He’s believable. I actually get a little swooney over him, and I’m not sure when that started happening. I loved him in Monuments Men, and I enjoyed seeing him and Clooney together – because they’re so different, but both kind of weirdly magnetic for different reasons.
@Erinn …
I absolutely loved Matty D in all three ‘Jason Bourne’ films. I think he absolutely nailed his role in the 2009 film “Invictus” (evidently, his peers thought so too because he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the role), with his bulked body and bleached white/blonde hair and that on the money South African (Afrikaner) accent. And I just thought he was incredibly ‘leading man’ handsome and sexy in “The Adjustment Bureau” (2011). The scene with him and Emily Blunt kissing in the Men’s bathroom … HOT! (somebody hand me a fan, quick!) 🙂
He was also very good/believable as a Chief Warrant Officer (real Iraq war Marine vets played the members of his squad) in “Green Zone.”
LOL! I could go on and on … 🙂
He really likes name dropping them doesn’t he? Especially Brad. He never promotes a movie without talking about him.
For real he stays on these guys nuts. Like Matt we get it you and your “civilian” are soooooo normal not like your celeb friends. Aren’t you special.
I don’t even like Clooney, Pitt , or Affleck but the way Damon keeps low-key shading these guys makes me wonder if he’s really cool with being the “everyman”. I bet most people only really want to ask him what it’s like hanging out with those guys than really anything about him. He just comes off passive-aggressive, humble brag-ish.
I thought it was just me that was picking up on that. And believe me I didn’t want to because I really like the guy.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! I think he is a fantastic actor, but Matt does some serious subtle shading. I also do not buy the good guy image he peddles, and yes there is some serious envy going on here towards Clooney, and Brad.
I was actually getting ready to be like OHHHHHH SOME SHADE but after reading what he said it didn’t sound as bad as I thought it would be. Still, like you, I can sense some shade.
You guys may be missing Damon’s bigger point when he proclaims himself “everyman”. You know who else were “everyman” in Hollywood? Oh, just Jimmy Stewart and Gary Cooper. That’s the first thing that popped into my mind.
I find him rather innocuous, and I’m not sure when he started grating on my nerves. He’s definitely humble bragging, whilst simultaneously selling himself as Hollywood’s “everyman”. It’s harmless enough, but I find it irritating. He’s probably the type who could talk for hours on how torturous it is to be a famous actor.
ITA.
The first 10x he said this, yeah sure, it was sort of cute.
Now, it’s in every interview so much so that you can look for it. He won’t disappoint. It comes across as this sort of smug, passive-aggression. His way of feeling superior. Total shade.
And I am glad that Damon appears to be happy with his “normal” life. Good for him. Not everyone wants the jet set, high-celebrity life.
Now can he be quiet about it? Does he have nothing else to talk about? His career? His activism? His opinions on Obama? Whatever, as long as it’s about him.
Oh that’s right. Matt Damon, as a subject, is as interesting as watching paint dry. Hence the name dropping. I swear he rides all three harder than their SOs. Cause Pitt, Clooney and Affleck combined do not talk publicly about Damon nearly as much as he talks about them.
This habit of his annoys me tremendously.
Anyway, while I feel Matt is generally a nice guy, part of me remembers how he dumped Minnie Driver. It all just seemed so cold. And yes that was years ago but still, it showed something about him so I guess that always lurks in the back of my mind – that there is something cold about him.
So this constant – and it is constant – shading of Clooney, Pitt and Affleck comes across as less than innocent, imo.
Couldn’t agree more with you guys!
I used to like him, and I think I still do. But he needs different material during interviews….
Was just thinking about the Minnie Driver thing. I think he’s an overall nice guy, but he does have a cold side.
I LOVE that he sometimes spontaneously mentions Ben and vice versa. It never feels like name-dropping, they’re part of each others’ lives in a real way.
THANK YOU. I like Matt and don’t really care about Brad and dislike George but i’m sick of this bullshit. You know people would be calling him out on it more often if he was a girl (i.e JLaw)
Seriously, if this was JLaw repeatedly talking about how much more “normal” and “every woman” she is compared to her costars, people would be all over her.
Awww come on, we don’t even know what the question was.
What if the question was “So what sets you apart from friends and colleagues like George Clooney and Brad Pitt?”
I think he talks about them because everyone knows that they’re buds and interviewers simply LOVE bringing them up. I doubt Damon feels the need to name-drop–he has a successful career in his own right and has never seemed to GAF about *celebrity*.
Besides, I’m 95% certain these are just old quotes.
And Original Kitten, I would totally agree if this were the first 10x he did this. But he does this in every interview. EVERY INTERVIEW.
No matter how indirect the question or unrelated to the others/no specific names mentioned, etc, he manages to mention Pitt (always), and frequently Clooney and Affleck. Every time, without fail.
It was subtle at first but dude is downright shading them. And he’s been doing it for a while now.
Hmmm…maybe it’s a deflection tactic? Maybe he just thinks that his personal life isn’t interesting enough on its own or maybe he’s trying to put the focus on one of his friends so he doesn’t have to reveal as many personal details about himself.
I don’t know..I just don’t buy him as someone who’s bitter and jealous because his friends get more attention or even as someone who name-drops to get press.
@TheOriginialKitten:
But why put your friends out there and use them as a buffer? Especially when Matt once shared how Pitt wished he’d be able to walk his kids to school in peace the way Damon does. So on some level he knows that Pitt doesn’t necessarily want to bring anymore attention to himself, so why whore out your friend to promote your movie?
Damon is at a level were he can control the kind of questions he gets. If he doesn’t want to talk about his personal life he doesn’t have to.
If Hollywood is like high school, than Damon comes off as the slightly above average looking, nice but has no charisma, friend that hangs out with the hot/popular guys and even though he likes being in the popular clique he also resents that he’s not the alpha dog/ “the guy” that everyone pays attention to.
I don’t get that vibe from him AT ALL. I mean, not even slightly.
I think these rags regurgitate old quotes because Damon doesn’t give a lot of interviews because he simply doesn’t GAF about being a Big Movie Star.
I also find him charismatic and attractive. Most of all, he just seems chill and comfortable with who he is. I don’t get the pretentiousness that I get from Clooney and Pitt-and I like both of those guys but they both have a tendency to sound full of themselves at times. Damon just seems down-to-earth.
I’m not a super-fan or all that invested in defending him but I’m buying what he’s selling.
*shrugs*
He seems genuine to me.
@TOK
I went to a Q&A years ago and from his answers he seemed really a genuine guy He never bragged about anyone else and yes, he knows he is lucky. I found he was inspiring and quite downtoearth, honestly.
They’re recycled quotes and not original. The magazine is making a story out of nothing. Matt has nothing to promote.
I love Matt Damon. I find him unbelievably sexy. More than Brad and George, who are just old now imo. The shirtlessness in the first Borne was a bit of a sexual awakening for me. There’s something about his skin. You just want it all over you.
Out of the three, Damon is the least obnoxious, in my opinion. So over the Pitt and Clooney hype for mediocre acting.
+1 Pitt used to be a decent actor in the 90’s (ok some were hit or miss) but since then his acting has been mediocre at best. Clooney is always Clooney; he has only done a couple of very good jobs at acting, the rest is just Clooney being Clooney except with a different character name and job title
I seriously doubt he really gave an interview to In Touch, these rags take snippets of old interviews from other sources and then piece them together to make their own story. I really like Matt he seems like a great dad and husband and he quietly disappears when he’s not promoting something.
Yeah I doubt he did either. The whole thing seems like a weird interview anyway. I think InTouch recycled this and yes he is really good at not getting papped but maybe the tabloids are starting to figure out his schedule. He is not promoting anything so to me that means they just got lucky.
I just looked in ITW there are about dozen questions followed by answers. Two questions about Clooney and Amal .When has Matt done a press conference since Clooney got engaged or any RC interviews?He also talks about his charity in interview.
Matt was asked about Clooney at a casual event a few months ago, which was sponsored by Clooney’s liquor. The quotes are not new.
Yeah I’m sorry I don’t trust or believe what any of these rags say, I could easily write up an interview with a list of questions that “I Asked” Matt and then write the story to look like present time, these are all different quotes that he has given out at various times that they have thrown into a story to look like they interviewed him.
I get what he’s trying to say, but it feels like the male equivalent of how actresses try to be “so relatable.” Like how everyone in Hollywood says that they were a dork in high school (or equivalent).
Exactly. It’s so transparent but he’s man so people won’t give as much shit for trying to be relatable.
“There’s something more ‘everyman’ about me.”
I think it’s because of the way he carries himself. I think he enjoys acting (and probably a bit of the fame as well) but doesn’t want to be a celebrity. He just wants to do his work, go home, and be a normal person like everyone else. Good for him.
LOVE Matt Damon!! I think it stems from Good Will Hunting & The Bourne series….oh my!! I love that he seems to be a family man. I want to believe that he’s a good, down to earth guy & I love that he seems “normal” in a way, at least more down to earth & every day man as opposed to Brad Pitt (YUM) and George Clooney (Blech).
Meh to all three.
Same. I don’t get it, either. Although, of the three, I would sooner have a beer with Damon after hearing him speak so eloquently and insightfully on CBC a few times about current affairs. He has brain and empathy. HUGE brain and empathy, relative to most of these stars. Good for him on that.
He’s by far my favorite of the three, and the best actor, too.
Matt is a down to earth guy, who knows who he is and is confident in being just tha an “just an average guy.” Paul Walker was like that, as beautiful a as that man was, he was approachable and appeared to be relatable. No need to let fame go to your head, imo. Or in the great words of Paul Walker, “My job doesn’t determine who I am. A job Is just that a job.
I like all three of them (yes, Clooney, too), but I think Matt is my favorite. He’s the best actor of the group for sure, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say a bad word about him. He seems to just go to work and do his job and then go quietly live his life with his family.
I suspect we’re getting pap pics because of his move to L.A. There was that story when he first moved about how Ben Affleck warned him paps would be all over him now that he was in the city. It hasn’t happened nearly as much as it does to Affleck/Garner (for obvious reasons) but it wouldn’t surprise me if he is getting pap’d more often now just because he’s there.
I think he’s the best actor of the 3 too. He seems like a regular guy who happens to be a successful actor, where as Clooney and Pitt are more celebrity. And I feel like that was a conscious choice Matt made.
Thank you for the Matt Damon post! I happen to really enjoy his acting and his interviews.
A few months ago he and Ben were raising money for their charities (Matt’s is water(dot)org) and you could win a trip to LA to hang out with them if you donated. Dang I wanted to win that so badly. Could care less about Ben, but just to hang out with Matt, I think it would just be really fun. I like how he jokes around, is self-deprecating but funny about it, and smart.
Also, my husband needed new glasses so I took in Matt’s picture from the photocall from Behind the Candelabra. Very nice indeed.
Lastly, in the 2 pics with his kids, the tshirt, cargo shorts and Reefs outfit is the defacto outfit for any 40-something dad out with kids. That is how my husband and a lot of my friends’ husbands dress here in the Midwest. Someone else mentioned above about the kids, I like it too that I can’t name his kids, and I couldn’t pick them out from a photo array, unlike Violet and Seraphina. That makes me sad that I even can tell you about those girls.
I love Matt Damon, I really do. But he says this often enough that it makes me wonder if he wishes he were Brad Pitt or George Clooney.
And now that I’ve read some of the other comments maybe he didn’t really speak to In Touch and they’re just recycling old quotes from interviews given to other mags. I’d much prefer to believe Matty didn’t have time for that stupid rag.
Is it not an interview that he gave at a recent charity event? Because i read his same quotes this week in a french tabloid
Apparently he will come back as Jason Bourne in july 2016
Really? I heard it was Renner.
i don’t agree with the spirit of this post….sorry kaiser.
TRUE
matt is not a brad pitt or george clooney…
not because he is an everyday bloke…
but because he is an incredibly classy, unassuming gentleman.
one not consumed with his star status.
not a narcissistist as the others seem to be.
matt is in extraordinary actor.
a master of his craft.
and he is well aware that what he does is a privilege.
THIS man is a true movie star.
the others aren’t even close.
Matt is not an ‘everyman.’ He jet sets all over the world like Pitt and Clooney. He charters private jets and sends his kids to private schools. That’s an everyman?
Yeah, this is a constructed persona as with most of Hollywood. I liked in him in Good Will Hunting and haven’t really been impressed with him otherwise.
Damon is probably the most approachable. He’ll often stop at airports and sign autographs for large groups of fans.
The other two are much more aloof, consider themselves royalty and are mostly concerned with refining their brand.
Definitely the most approachable, there’s so many stories about people just randomly bumping into Matt out and about and having nice chats with him. Clooney and Pitt are always with security and entourages, they don’t live anything resembling normal lives anymore, no ‘outsiders’ even get close to them until they’re on a red carpet signing autographs.
Damon probably doesn’t get accosted as much as Clooney or Pitt when he’s out. I can only imagine the high pitched screams that come out of women’s mouths when they see Clooney or Pitt, and then the likelihood of multiple people trying to touch them or hug them or rush them is pretty high. I can’t fault them for having security for that.
Matt Damon probably has some shrieking fans, but I don’t think nearly on the level of Brad and George.
Does he ever stop name dropping? He’s the male-Goop when it comes to that. It should be a drinking game at this point. Take two shots when Damon talks about Brad Pitt. Three for Ben Affleck.
He does name-drop a lot. LOL
So, he claims to be a regular guy. And yet he hangs out with puerile lowlife/wannabees. Go figure.
IKR? I want to like him so bad but, as the saying goes in spanish, díme con quien andas y te digo quien eres. I’ve seen enough of unscripted Affleck to know he’s an arrogant-beyond-his-ability turd with a lot of problems (and I think he’s smart and does good work for Africa, but even at that he far overestimates his intelligence.) He’s also repeatedly shown himself to be personally misogynistic and a complete egoist. Hard to know how you can hang out with that without being something like it.
Like others have pointed out, this must be the umpteenth interview I’ve read where he mentions Pitt, Clooney or both. I get quotes can be recycled but surely not this much? And I wish he’d stop talking about how ‘ordinary’ and ‘everyman’ he is, we get it Matt, you’re the dude next door. Good for you. The other two are MOVIE STARS for the ages. They can’t be normal or everyday guys. That’s not their lot in life. It is for Matt Damon though and boy does he know it and wants us to know it too.
He doesn’t recycle the quotes. The media does.
Matt and Ben, friends for 26 years or more. I love their friendship, their brotherhood, and that they don’t take themselves too seriously. They can dish it out to each other and take it, not turn all defensive, because they know they deep down they have a lot o respect or one another. They do love each other as best friends, and that’s rare to see two make it so young and that friendship last and admiration for each other last.
I always forget that I all I need to do is wait for your comments on these threads and add a “+1” 😉
@Jayna …
They’ve been friends longer than that. They’ve been best friends since they met, when Matt was 10-years-old and Ben was 8-years-old. Both men are now in their 40’s (Matt is 43).
Years ago people saw their closeness and said they ‘must’ be gay lovers. Sad.
I agree. It’s a really touching friendship. And they never had a weird period where they didn’t hang out as much.
He’s one of the few actors that if I read something truly scandalous about him, I’d be shocked/heartbroken. The rest of them? Eh, a bunch of creeps!
Why always mentioning Brad and George? Why not compare himself with his friend, Ben? Ben gets a lot of coverage? So tired of this already. Does he have to mention Brad and George and let us know he married “someone not in show business” in every interview? Would like him more, except for this.
He makes one quote a few years ago and the media keeps using it. Don’t blame Matt for poor journalism.
The Brad Pitt quote is from an Elle magazine interview in 2011.
The Clooney quote is from a Casamigos event in May.
There was no interview with In Touch.
InTouch Weekly may be recycled but he made similar comments about Brad in GQ and Esquire.I wish he would stop mentioning him in EVERY magazine interview.
He’s the best actor of the three. Talent Mr Ripley is one of the creepiest films ever!
Oh my gawwwd, He wasamazingin The talented Mr.Ripley. He was so utterly creepy , he was terrifying. He held his own in that role.
I like Matt a lot in and off screen, he seems comfortable in his own skin.
George Clooney doesn’t really seem to ever stop playing a persona even off screen it seems like he’s playing an image.
I love Brad Pitt too, I feel Angelina has actually made Brad a man with more depth.
My moneys on Matt.He seems to be a great husband, father and a very likeable guy.
I have a deal for you Damon detractors. If you don’t denigrate my understanding of his talent I won’t denigrate your lack of understanding of his talent.
That’s a good deal. 🙂
I have a serious crush on him- he’s totally my type, talented, sexy, and smart. Plus I *love* the way he speaks up for teachers. He transcends his everymanness into amazing characters on the screen and he isn’t full of himself. Love. Him.
I emphatically disagree with you.
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No offense to Brad Pitt or George Clooney (they do have that certain charisma), but Matt Damon has more talent in his little pinky than BP and GC combined.