“There’s a great lesson here for an actor,” Matt Damon said, a dusting of gray in his short hair and thin goatee, fine age lines around his pale blue eyes. Credit Jessica Forde / Focus FeaturesYet despite being a hugely famous, sympathetic and very bankable American movie star, Damon has always felt distant, hasn’t he? Then he fouls things up — badly, unethically — and because it’s Matt Damon, you don’t entirely hold it against him. The Matt Damon type is one that no longer has automatic home-field advantage in quite so many people’s hearts. In all the soft spaces around the words, Matt Damon breaks your heart.

Source: Irish Examiner August 07, 2021 04:52 UTC