In case you didn't already think Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso were a great team, the Oppenheimer actor just shared a story about his wife that might persuade you.
During a recent interview with Jake Hamilton, the 52-year-old actor revealed the simple yet life-changing advice he received from his wife after falling into a “depression” over a project that wasn't turning out the way he'd hoped.
“I think, without naming any particular movies, that sometimes you find yourself in a movie that you know perhaps might not be what you had hoped it would be, and you're still making it,” Damon said, per Today. “Halfway through production and you’ve still got months to go, and you’ve taken your family somewhere, 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?”
But Barroso didn't let the Good Will Hunting writer and star spiral. “She just said, ‘We’re here now,’” Damon said. “I do pride myself, in a large part because of her, at being a professional actor. And what being a professional actor means is you go and you do the 15-hour day and give it absolutely everything, even in what you know is going to be a losing effort. If you can do that with the best possible attitude, then you're a pro, and she really helped me with that.”
In fact, Matt Damon is surrounded by supportive women. Earlier this month Damon was joined by three of his four daughters at the Paris premiere of his latest film, Oppenheimer. You know, that movie coming out on the same day as Barbie. The actor hit the carpet with Stella, 12, Gia, 14, and Alexia, 24, while their 16-year-old daughter Isabella had other plans, according to People.
Matt Damon became an “extra dad” to Alexia when he married Luciana Barroso in 2005. “I jumped into the deep end with Lucy. I mean, Alexia was already four,” Damon said of fatherhood during an interview with Parade in 2011. “The only way I can describe it—it sounds stupid—but at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows, like, five times its size? Everything is full; it’s just full all the time.”
In 2019, he had all four of his daughters' names tattooed on his arm next to his preexisting “Lucy” tattoo. “On a whim, my wife said, ‘We're going to get tattoos today,’ so I got a tattoo of her name,” Damon told Access Hollywood at the time. “And it always felt alone on my arm, and I've always wanted to put the kids on there.”
