Matt Damon Was On A Break From Acting, But Then Christopher Nolan Called

Hello, welcome back to the late show, everyone is already in progress, ladies and gentlemen, my first guest tonight is an Oscar-winning actor and writer who you know from many of your favorite films such as Goodwill Hunting, the Born Identity films and Oppenheimer, please welcome back. The Late Show Mr. Matt Damon Wow, these are the adventurous people who braved the snow. That's exactly it. I thanked you for being here. You know, I weathered the storm to be here. I appreciate it. I did it. I did it. Eric Eric Adams, our mayor is very. Popular in my house today because everyone has to stay home from school, so you were one of the big Super Bowl ads this year along with your friend Ben Affleck and Tom Brady, like I have to ask who it was the idea, which is clearly not my idea, we had a lot of fun doing it, although it actually was, yes, it seems like it seems like a lot of fun, so, Affleck is your best friend, yes, he's your best friend for many, many years , that's fantastic, I like it. at the end you say I like it at the end you say I remember I said I would do anything for you this is anything that's what you say at the end of the ad yeah, and I actually told him that when we were filming and he just walked away In other words , when I said I gave you a voucher, that means I would do anything where you just burn it, but I mean, no

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er how much time we have on this beautiful planet, we, uh, he's the one who doesn't have any more voucher with me, um, uh.

Who do you hang out with famous people? Who is your team? Who does Matt Damon work with? Well, first, I don't think of myself in the third person, so let me tell you who Matt Damon is. Rose, tell me who Matt Damon is. uh uh. Stephen Coar wants to know, look, well, we have some friends who are famous because they are or in the business because that's who you end up meeting the people you're working with what's your ratio on the team is 8020 what's your ratio of famous people to unknown people. I have John Krinski and Emily Blunt, we live in the same apartment building so I see them quite often, okay, but they're more like a family than I don't think they're famous, yeah, them.

I don't even think I can choose them. They are in your building. There is nothing I can do about it. You just grew up with them. I see him at the gym every morning and I can't get away from him, so really. yes, I just fought him. I know you fought it on numerous occasions. This is only three, yes, they are numerous. Yeah, I'm not going to fight you because I just touched your triceps on the way out and it's like. a brick wall, are you preparing for a roll or something or do you just like to stay in shape?

No, I'm just trying to keep up with JN, it's the truth because John was getting in really good shape for this role. what he went to do uh he's doing this Richie movie so I started training with him every morning um just because I had nothing else to do with you so you don't run with a lot of famous people just the Only the people you can name They're famous, famous people, that's right, that's right, yeah, but like Ben, for example, you know Ben is obviously a very famous guy, but like us, you know he wasn't when he was eight years old when I started dating him. . fair, that's fair because I don't know, I don't know, do you know if I run out?

I run with enough famous people because I'm moderately famous. I'm not Matt Damon famous, but I'm moderately famous. You are on television. every night you're, I mean, but, I imagine you just hang out with John Stewart and I mean, that's all we do, just John and I meet at a burger joint and just hang out the next. rally exactly right exactly right um I have to ask you about Oppenheimer it's a fantastic performance um what did you know thank you two quick questions two quick questions move on uh I understand that before you did Oppenheimer you and your wife agreed that you wouldn't perform for a while, so what? why did you feed?

We had a very specific arrangement which was that I always like most actors, that people keep an eye on someone like Chris Nolan and I had a feeling that he might have a movie coming up and he's really Mercurial has no idea if there's a role for me. , but I just left that door open, I said, but if Chris Nolan

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me, honey, nothing is more important to me than the time we spend together, our marriage is second most important. thing no that's not true no but I did but to be fair she's also a big fan of his movies so she said no obviously if he calls

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you can do that and then he did it, you know, which was cool. wow, yeah, maybe that's a way to tempt him into giving you something, so I just want to tell you honey, I just want you to know that I will never act in a movie unless Chris Nolan calls, so I have to do it.

It's irresistible, yes, yes. I have to take a short

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, but back with more Matt D, everyone stay put.