Apparently, not even winning an Oscar can make you a cool daddy. On Sunday July 19, Matt Damon opened up on why his teenage daughter “refuses” to watch her father in his Oscar-winning breakout role in Good Will Hunting.
“She doesn’t want to see any movie I’m in that she thinks she’s good at,” the actor revealed in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning during the promotion of his latest film, Stillwater, at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. .
Damon added during the conversation that 15-year-old Isabella has a particularly LOL-worthy way of making sure her famous dad says humble. “She just likes to give me stuff,” he said. “My daughter said, ‘Hey, do you remember that movie you made, The Wall?’ I said, ‘It was called The Great Wall.’ She says, ‘Dad, there was nothing great about that movie.’ She keeps my feet firmly on the ground. “
In all fairness, the 2016 action flick, in which Damon battles former CGI monsters alongside Willem Dafoe as the titular Guardian of the World Wonder, currently has a meager 35% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so can -be that the teenager is right. But has she seen The Martian? What about the talented Mr. Ripley? Did we buy a zoo ??
However, despite regular attacks from cheeky teens, the actor has explained why it remains important that he shares his passion for his craft and career with his daughters. (He also shared Gia, 12, and Stella, 10, with his wife Luciana.)
“I like them to know that I love my job,” he said. “They know it takes time and a lot of work, and that it fills me up.”
Interestingly, while starring in Contagion in 2011, Damon spent part of the pandemic in isolation in a remote village on the Irish coast after a film he was filming in Europe was forced to stop production. Her eldest daughter, meanwhile, was curled up in New York City, where she caught the virus but luckily recovered.
