Chris Hemsworth and Matt Damon are close friends. The two spend so much time together that now their wives, Elsa Pataky and Luciana Barroso, are also close friends, with the foursome going out on dinners and trips together.
24.07.2023 - 15:33 / etcanada.com
Matt Damon is still bitter about Donald Trump’s “Air”-inspired promotional video.
During a recent interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace, the actor sarcastically shaded the former president when asked about Trump’s repurposed monologue that was used as a promotional video for a fundraiser last month.
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“I don’t know what to make of it,” Damon said, while simply laughing as he thought about it.
“I’m glad they like our writing,” he sarcastically added.
Elsewhere in the interview, the “Oppenheimer” star poked fun at his “Air” character, agent Sonny Vaccaro, joking that he was also “trying to write speeches for the Trump campaign.”
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Trump’s fundraising video, which shows footage of him throughout his life, is accompanied by audio of Damon’s final monologue from the April-released film, in which his character — a Nike exec — gives the convincing speech to a young Michael Jordan in hopes he’ll sign a sponsorship deal with the shoe company.
Both Damon and his pal Ben Affleck, who directed the film, have slammed the Trump campaign’s unauthorized use of the audio, demanding them to remove the video, however it currently remains on Trump’s Truth Social platform.
Damon has never shied away from blasting Trump. In 2017, he fired at the 45th U.S. president for his “absolutely abhorrent” remarks to condemn white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. That same year he called Trump’s cut scene from “Scent Of A Woman” “bullsh*t,” complaining that he wasted everyone’s time on set.
Chris Hemsworth and Matt Damon are close friends. The two spend so much time together that now their wives, Elsa Pataky and Luciana Barroso, are also close friends, with the foursome going out on dinners and trips together.
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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are known to have one of the longest friendships in Hollywood. The pair are known to be longtime collaborators and friends, working together on several successful projects throughout their careers and being supportive in each other personal lives, with Matt even attending Ben’s wedding with Jennifer Lopez last year.The three friends have a close relationship and it seems Ben and JLo have even helped the actor on his marriage with wife Luciana Barroso, after the pair had said to have experienced some trouble in their 18-year relationship.
Matt Damon and Chris Hemsworth donned almost matching outfits for a lunch date with their wives and friends on Monday.
Matt Damon's 20-year relationship with Luciana Barroso feels so particularly magical.From their too-adorable-to-believe meet cute in a bar in Florida in 2003 to their heartwarming love story that they've managed to keep largely out of the media spotlight, Matt and Luciana have cultivated a romance that has stood the test of time and the challenges of being a celebrity under scrutiny.In celebration of their storybook romance — including a distinctly humble, low-key wedding, four adorable daughters and stunning red carpet date nights — ET is looking back at their relationship, from where it started to where they are now, two decades later.Matt and Luciana's paths first crossed when the actor was filming the comedy in Miami, Florida, in 2003. Matt was at a bar in South Beach after shooting ended for the day, and he noticed Luciana, who was a bartender.
Christopher Nolan‘s smash historic pic.On an “Agree to Disagree” segment for LADBible with Emily Blunt, who also stars in the thinking man’s blockbuster, Damon was asked whether or not you should tell someone when they have bad breath. Blunt and Damon didn’t hesitate to insist that you should always tell someone if their breath smells — which Blunt argued is particularly important while filming “intimate scenes” with co-stars.“There’s an etiquette,” Blunt said.
Matt Damon has revealed the prank that made George Clooney the “maddest I’ve ever seen him”.The actors were on the set of 2004 film Ocean’s Twelve together and stayed at Clooney’s villa in Lake Como, Italy along with Brad Pitt when the prank in question was carried out.In a recent interview with CNN, Damon – whose newest film Oppenheimer came out Friday (July 21) – recalled a days-long prank executed by co-star Pitt which put avid prankster Clooney on the receiving end for once.Damon recalled how Pitt sent out letters as Clooney’s team in Italian to his Italian crew, which said they were not permitted to “look him in the eye at any time” and that they could not to refer to him as George, but only “Mr Clooney or Mr Ocean”.The actor added that Clooney was usually the “life of the set”, but eventually noticed that something was off.“He came home, and that’s the maddest I’ve ever seen him, because Brad got him,” he said.Damon added that Pitt “sat there and he just said, ‘Just leave everybody else around me out of it, just come just for me”.‘Leave other civilians out of it,” joked Damon in the interview.Pitt recently named his Burn After Reading co-star as one of his picks for “the most handsome men in the world”, joking: “I’ve got to name that George Clooney fucker, because why not?”Elsewhere, back in 2017, Clooney heaped praise on Damon by calling him “the greatest actor I’ve ever worked with”.“In fact, I don’t know a better actor I’ve seen in my life. I’m trying to think if there’s a better actor.
George Clooney is renowned as a prankster in Hollywood, and it turns out that he doesn’t like it when one of his famous friends gets one over on him.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Matt Damon will never be able to escape his decision to turn down James Cameron’s 2009 space epic “Avatar,” which remains the highest-grossing movie of all time with $2.9 billion worldwide (unadjusted for inflation). Damon turned down the film despite an offer that included receiving 10% of the box office back end, which would’ve meant a $250 million payday for him. During a recent interview with Chris Wallace, the “Avatar” offer got brought up again and prompted Damon to explain his thought process behind tossing it off. “I’m sure it’s the most money an actor ever turned down, you know?” Damon said about his decision, stressing that he did not want to get out of his contract for another Jason Bourne movie at the time.
John Krasinski had quite the reaction after finding out Matt Damon had turned down 2009’s “Avatar”.
Matt Damon has recalled having to kiss Scarlett Johansson for a scene after she ate an onion sandwich.The pair starred together in the 2011 film We Bought A Zoo, and Damon made the revelation in a new interview.He and his Oppenheimer co-star Emily Blunt were playing a game during a video interview with LadBible where they had to agree or disagree with posed statements.After receiving the statement: “You should tell someone if they have bad breath,” Damon told the story of having to kiss Johansson on set after she ate an onion sandwich for lunch, joking that it was “hell” and adding: “Can you image how horrible that was for me?”He added: “We went to lunch and she and I both thought it was over. She ate an onion sandwich for lunch and she came in and Cameron Crowe had set the camera up and it was a tight shot of the kiss, and she goes, ‘Oh shit, I literally just had an onion sandwich!’.”Elsewhere, Damon has revealed that he was planning to take a break from acting when he got a call from Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer.Speaking to Entertainment Weekly as part of EW‘s Around The Table interview with the rest of the Oppenheimer cast, Damon revealed that he had negotiated with his wife to take a break from acting unless Nolan called him up for a role.“This is going to sound made up, but it’s actually true,” Damon said to his cast mates.
Matt Damon received his first "big paycheck" in Hollywood and decided not to spend it on himself. In a recent interview with his "Oppenheimer" co-stars, Emily Blunt and Cillian Murphy, Damon revealed he was able to put his mother, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, through her Ph.D. program with the $25,000 he earned for his role in the 1990 drama "Rising Son." "I bought my brother a car and I put my mom through her Ph.D.
Matt Damon is a big fan of Christopher Nolan’s work. The actor, who’d previously worked with the legendary director in the film “Interstellar,” revealed that he treasured the experience so much that he included it in an acting break deal he’d made with his wife while attending couple’s counseling. Matt Damon gets a tattoo dedicated to his late father, then gives his first tattooBen Affleck and Matt Damon talk about the first time they met Michael JordanMatt Damon’s emotional moment with wife Luciana Barroso: ‘She really helped me’A post shared by Oppenheimer (@oppenheimermovie)In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Damon got personal about his relationship to Nolan and his relationship with his wife Luciana Barroso.
Cillian Murphy's portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the «father of the atomic bomb,» in Christopher Nolan's upcoming epic,, was an intense undertaking.The actor's traditionally intense visage is only made more dramatic by the sunken cheekbones and dour expression he wears as the theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project during World War II, who seemed to carry the literal weight of the world as he conducted experiments that could lead to the end of humanity.«When Oppenheimer was running the Manhattan Project and they were doing their calculations, early on they saw the possibility that when they triggered the first atomic device, to test it, they might start a chain reaction that set fire to the atmosphere and destroyed the whole world,» Nolan explained to ET ahead of the film's premiere.«A small possibility, [but they] couldn't eliminate it completely through theory, and yet they went ahead and they pushed that button,» he continued.
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Matt Damon has led a number of movies that have topped the box office and even garnered him accolades, including one Oscar win for co-writing and several other Academy Award nominations for acting, he admitted there has been a time where he found himself in a «losing effort,» causing him to fall into a depression while on set. «I think, without naming any particular movies, that sometimes you find yourself in a movie that perhaps might not be what you had hoped it would be and you're still making it,» Damon told Jake Hamilton, host of the YouTube interview series, while promoting his latest role in «I remember halfway through production — and you've still got months to go and you've taken your family somewhere, you know, and you've inconvenienced them — and I remember my wife pulling me up because I fell into a depression about, like, 'What have I done?'» Damon recalled, referring to Luciana Barroso. «And she just said, 'We're here now,'» he revealed. «I do pride myself, in a large part because of her, at being a professional actor.
Matt Damon hasn’t always had it easy making movies.
Members of SAG-AFTRA are showing their support after the labor union failed to reach an agreement with studios over fairer wages, the use of artificial intelligence in media and other issues.
Hollywood reacted to the actor union’s announcement Thursday that it will join the writer’s union in striking for fair pay, with A-listers like Matt Damon, Margot Robbie, Jeremy Renner and Jamie Lee Curtis all voicing their support. "It’s really about working actors," Matt Damon told Variety of the strike at the "Oppenheimer" premiere.