Matt Damon is aware of the best way to put his greatest foot ahead — a lot to the amusement of his teenage daughter.
A video initially shared by Leisure Tonight on Tuesday, January 13, captured the second Damon’s daughter, Gia, 17, mocked her well-known dad for posing awkwardly on The Rip premiere’s crimson carpet in New York Metropolis.
“Why are you standing like this?” Gia, whom Damon, 55, shares with spouse, Luciana Barroso, requested her father as she imitated him hunched ahead along with his arms puffed out to every aspect. Damon had been posing for pictures alongside his costar and fellow The Rip producer Ben Affleck.
The video, shared by a fan through Twitter later that day, confirmed Damon take his daughter’s comment in his stride, recreating the pose himself earlier than breaking into an enormous grin as Gia, her mother, 49, and two of her sisters, Isabella, 19, and Stella, 15, watched the Martian star poke enjoyable at himself. (Damon can also be stepfather to Alexia, 25, whom her mom shares with ex-husband Arbello Barroso.)
All the Damon household impressed in entrance of the cameras as they posed collectively for pictures, with Luciana donning a shocking strapless crimson robe as her mini-me daughters rocked glamorous figure-hugging clothes of their very own.
The occasion noticed Affleck, 53, opening up completely to Us Weekly about how a lot he values his decades-long friendship with Damon. “I preserve relearning issues about Matt that I already knew and I neglect them,” Affleck instructed Us. “Actually, I’m constantly reminded of what an awesome father he’s and what a superb actor he’s.”
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Slaven Vlasic/Getty Photographs for Netflix
The Rip serves as yet one more skilled collaboration between the pair. The movie follows a bunch of Miami authorities who uncover a stash of tens of millions and start to query who they’ll belief. Throughout a joint promotional interview on the Monday, January 12, episode of The Howard Stern Present, Damon revealed that Luciana had watched their 1997 collaboration, Good Will Looking, earlier than they’d met and initially thought Affleck was “the lovable one.”
Damon instructed Stern, 72, that she had admitted it after they’d been courting for a couple of months. “I believe I met her greatest good friend from highschool and it got here out that the 2 of them went and noticed Good Will Looking collectively and her greatest good friend thought I used to be the lovable one and she or he thought Ben was the lovable one,” Damon recalled.
Affleck and Damon additionally famous that today, Luciana typically works with them each, with the Argentinian-born star serving as a producer on The Rip and Affleck’s subsequent directorial undertaking, Animals.
As for the opposite ladies in Damon’s life, the actor opened up about how he navigates fatherhood throughout a 2024 interview for SiriusXM’s “Radio Andy” present. “I wouldn’t deign to provide anyone recommendation apart from I simply attempt to pay attention and be useful,” Damon instructed host Andy Cohen on the time. “I imply, finally, it’s about constructing vanity. You already know, 99% of the choices they make, you’re not gonna be there, proper?”
He had beforehand instructed The Guardian in 2012 that he knew he was “going to like” being a father and husband. “Individuals who have been already dad and mom would inform me: ‘It’s nice!’ ‘It’s fantastic!’” he instructed the outlet on the time. “However I don’t suppose you’ll be able to actually respect it till you expertise it for your self. It’s actually fairly one thing.”
