Matt Damon has been married to his spouse, Luciana Barroso, for greater than 20 years — however seems her eyes have been initially drawn to his greatest buddy Ben Affleck.
“That is f****ing fully true,” Damon, 55, started throughout the Monday, January 12, episode of The Howard Stern Present after being requested if Affleck, 53, was across the night time he met his spouse. “After we’d been collectively for a short time, in all probability a number of months, she admitted that — I believe I met her greatest buddy from highschool and it got here out that the 2 of them went and noticed Good Will Looking collectively and her greatest buddy thought I used to be the lovable one and she or he thought Ben was the lovable one.”
He added, “So she admitted to me… I’m like, ‘You bought the flawed one?!’ She advised me that 23 years in the past.”
When host Howard Stern requested Damon if listening to one thing like that “stays with you” over time, Affleck and Damon identified that the trio now work collectively typically — Barroso, 49, is a producer on The Rip and Affleck’s subsequent directorial challenge, Animals.
“She’s a terrific producer and a extremely good buddy and yeah, I by no means obtained that vibe from her. So I believe one thing I did in actual life rubbed it off,” Affleck joked, to which Stern, 72, and Damon laughed. “‘You understand, in individual, you’re completely different.’”
“Lastly she met him and all that went away,” Damon replied.
Stern famous it will be “devastating” if Barroso “left” him and “ran off with Ben,” to which Damon wholeheartedly agreed. “If my two favourite individuals simply exited my life? Yeah, that might suck.”
Damon and Affleck have been the writers and stars of 1997’s Good Will Looking, a movie that earned them Oscars for greatest Authentic Screenplay and Finest Supporting Actor for Robin Williams. Damon met Barroso six years later in Miami whereas filming his film Caught on You. The pair, who tied the knot in 2005, share 4 daughters: Alexia, 25, Isabella, 19, Gia, 17, and Stella, 15.
Whereas chatting with Stern, Affleck confessed that he’s been “witness to a number of lovely beautiful issues from each of them alongside the best way” within the couple’s 20 years of marriage.
“It’s a extremely beautiful marriage and friendship and two individuals who after they’re aside and impartial of each other are each other’s accomplice,” he shared, including that he won’t have been current the day they met, however “I’ve a sense it’s improved.”
Damon, for his half, revealed that it was The Rip script supervisor, Steve Gehrke, who was truly with him when he first was launched to Barroso, however he forgot that reality “for years” as a result of how enamored he was along with her.
“I couldn’t bear in mind who I used to be with ’trigger all I remembered was her,” he stated, which Affleck referred to as a “good husband” remark.
“I’m like, ‘But in addition, you have been hammered, and it’s a little bit obscure,’ ” Affleck quipped. “However he’s sensible sufficient to not say that.”
Affleck added that he ought to ask for Barroso’s buddy’s quantity to carry the love sq. full circle, however Damon had dangerous information. “She’s married, I simply thought it was a humorous joke — I can’t resist,” the Odyssey star stated, to which Affleck responded, “Story of my life.”
Affleck was beforehand married to Jennifer Garner from 2005 to 2018 and the pair share three kids: Violet, 19, Seraphina, 16, and Samuel, 13. He later obtained again along with ex-fiancée Jennifer Lopez. The pair wed in 2022, however finally referred to as it quits for good three years later.
