Matt Damon Debuts His Matthew McConaughey Impression | Letterman

our first guest stars in a new movie titled The Good Shepherd that premieres December 22nd. Here's the lovely The Talented Matt Damon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much. It's good to have them with us. Thank you. This is what I know since last time. We were here and maybe it was a year ago, two years ago, something like that, yeah, now you have a little girl, I have a little girl, well, congratulations, very good, and a wife too and a wife, yeah, who is it? the mother and your wife, your mother and your wife Oh, I thought you said something else, oh well, my wife is, my wife Lucy, she is, we've been married for a year, actually, a year ago , a couple of days ago, good for you and, where? you get married we got married actually at city hall here in uh in New York really yes we uh we someone didn't give a round of applause public officials very happy with that uh and but why city hall I think I know why and it makes a lot of sense , But why did you do it?

Well, we went down, we didn't want anyone to. There was a rumor that we were going to get married and we were afraid it would be right before the holidays last year and we didn't want to have people hanging out outside our house and stuff, so we just nipped it in the bud and ended up with what it is. like everyone was there, a family and friends or no one, well we did it, we had our, her, my daughter, my stepdaughter there and in fact the mayor was there, mayor what's his name, so he had to the mayor, is he like his godfather or something?

No, no, he just happened to be there, he works there, yes, oh, I see, yes, that's very nice, so it was very nice of him to come, it was a beautiful morning, in fact we thought it wasn't going to be very romantic, but a snow storm came and uh. It wasn't New York City with a big snowstorm. There is nothing better than New York City. It's great. I agree for the first three hours, which was when we got married. And little baby, how are you doing? Beautiful, yes, it's great. she's uh she's uh I had been an uncle up to this point so I'm learning things that are good, completely different Dynamics, right?

Yes Yes Yes. I mean, it turns out you can't when they cry, just give them back you can't do that it's actually your kid you have to figure it out but it's completely it's so much better I mean being a guy is fine you know and it's a good way to get your feet wet but it's No, It's not the real deal, it's absolutely yes, congratulations and the girl's name is Isabella Isabella Oh what a beautiful name, thanks to you and your wife, she's from South America, that's right, well yes, she was born in Argentina , Argentina, yes.

You spent a lot of time there a little bit, yeah, we have a whole family there, so I hope you know that my stepdaughter, my daughter, will be able to learn Spanish and be raised bilingual, and yeah, because they don't speak any English. if you speak Spanish. I'm learning, yes, from your wife, she's teaching you, yes, yes, well, that's great, no, thank you, no, that's all, it's all very nice, uh, and our reference card Tony, do you speak Spanish now same? Do you understand that? I get it, she said your wife is from Argentina, yeah that's cool dude, sorry, yeah she seemed unprovoked at all.

I don't know what to say, I just said I was practicing Spanish with my wife, yes, yes, very strange. Now I know I know one thing. about you and me, I'm dying to get to this, but maybe we have other things to talk about, but I'll plant the seed now, uh, Matthew McConaughey, you, you know him, sure, yeah, you've worked with him and you make an

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of Matthew. I've known him for years and he's a great guy. Yes, but no, I don't really do Impressions. I only had this impression only because I was with him for a while. a little bit years ago what kind of person he is he's horrible he's great he's always like uh let's have a party kind of person right well yeah I mean he probably has a lot of fun I think he has a lot of fun which is good, I think it's a good, That's what life is about, for God's sake, yes, so I'm dying to hear the impression and it focuses on a phrase that I think is very appropriate in this case to say to people.

What is the circumstance? What's the quote with Matthew McConaughey? Okay, well, this. I just noticed that he doesn't have a shirt on most of the time. Yes. Every time you see him, he always has his shirt on and is in fantastic shape. okay, okay and... uh, but the last one in Oceans 13 I just got used to going every day and they're going to be under the impression that I just want to set it up right now, okay, but this is Matthew McConaughey and we all know that every time you see a picture of the shirtless guy anywhere, yeah right, and for good reason I mean he's right, it's no accident that he's shirtless, I mean I don't think so, no I wouldn't.

I think so, he's fine now, with that in mind, when we get back we'll hear a bit of your impression. Okay, we'll come back before we get to Matthew McConaughey, tell me about the movie and how it's directed. by Robert De Niro yes, yes, it is called The Good Shepherd, it will be released on December 22 and it is a film based historically on the formation of the CIA, yes, exactly, it follows the entire birth of the intelligence service in the United States and then also. It follows this guy through his life and his home life and Angelina Jolie plays my wife and oh, she's an attractive foreigner, how was that so good?

It was cool, yeah, it's interesting, I mean, we've read a lot and seen a lot and probably nothing. Of us really know the truth of what's going on there, but it must be hard not to be distracted, I mean, she, yes, she's absolutely beautiful, that's true, but she's an excellent actress, I mean, that outweighs her beauty. whether or not when you're when you're right next to her and you're friends with Brad Pitt too, yeah, absolutely, and they did, would it come up in the sentence, yeah, it was there, uh, you know, it came. a couple of times and you would know they were there because I, you know, we were filming at the Armory in Brooklyn and every morning, she would go to work and the day she worked there would be like 50, you know, cameras and everything. these people have to deal with a lot of that stuff, yeah, people are fascinated by her, yeah, by her and by him, and by them together, and yeah, well, you put them together, then you really have something, then you have, yeah , it's like the perfect storm exactly for the mechanics, uh, so Robert De Niro is a distraction, here's a guy who directs you well, you're distracted by that, for God's sake, uh, a little bit at first, yeah , uh, because we didn't really know each other. another one coming into it and and uh and obviously you knew he's Robert, sure, so, uh, but it turned out to be, you know, because it was a minimal performance that he was sitting there and looking at me, that was, that was uh.

It felt good, you know, when you have him as your backup, right, yeah, that's pretty good, you do a Robert De Niro impression, no, no, no, I'm telling you, I mean, with Impressions, it's weird like out just in my head I have random people that you know I do well um it's not I don't even think it's that good I mean I'm fine as far as I know it's tremendous and it's going to be the kind of thing I go into to want everything I can to improve. I'll tell you honestly, once I do it, I'm not like one of those little rich guys who can just turn it on, but then once it's there, no.

Don't leave it, it's okay, that's why I've spent a lot of time here presenting the topic comfortably. Well, now I'll actually give you the option to show the Good Shepherd clip from time to time. the impression, right, we're going to show the clip of this and you prepare for it, okay, uh, so the clip, what are we going to see here? uh this is the first time I've met John Tuturo's character oh that's cool this guy is not just true. Yeah, it's cool and this is, we're in London during World War II and we're working for OSS and he's coming on the Good Shepherd opens December 22, check it out, it opens December 22 for the Good Shepherd, okay , it's all yours. now and whatever you need to set this up, I mean, the first time you noticed that he was him, the first time you noticed that he never had his shirt on, yeah, and I, I don't know, I just used to hang out with them when If you knew broke actors and then, no, I don't know, man, right?

But what I would say is that I would go in the morning, you know, every morning on the set of Oceans 13. and to Steven Soderbergh and I would say, um uh Mr. Soderberg uh, today's scene I think would be a good opportunity to take off my shirt, yes, that's very strong, thank you, very good, well, I would like to invite him to Kilgore, where I'm from Texas, maybe we'll have a barbecue or something good, that's very nice, but I have to take off his shirt Matthew. Well, if we were in Austin, you'd know, especially if it's summer, it's a little hot, so yeah, probably.

We'll get more chicks if we take off our shirts, okay, I'm there, that's great, great, random, congratulations, uh, Matt Damon, the Good Shepherd, December 22, great pleasure to see you, congratulations on the baby, it's well, foreigner.