Aimee Walker
Matt Damon has revealed he’s only just stopped using homophobic slurs because of his daughter.
The 50-year-old actor made the confession during an interview with The Sunday Times.
He explained: “I made a joke, months ago, and got a treatise from my daughter. She went to her room and wrote a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous.
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“I said, ‘I retire the f-slur!’ I understood.”
Damon added that it was a ‘commonly used’ term when he was younger, but said it had a ‘different application’.
Elsewhere in the interview, the American star also reflected on previous comments he has made.
He noted that over the past few years, news outlets have been become much more critical of his comments and pulled them apart.
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He said: “Twenty years ago, the best way I can put it is that the journalist listened to the music more than the lyrics [of an interview].
“Now your lyrics are getting parsed, to pull them out of context and get the best headline possible.
“Before it didn’t really matter what I said, because it didn’t make the news.
“But maybe this shift is a good thing. So I shut the f*** up more.”
Damon also reflected on how cinema and watching films has changed.
“The way they watch is different to how we did,” he said. “How can you watch a movie if you are texting? As someone who makes these things, I can’t say I love that.
“Movies as we know them aren’t going to be a thing in our kids’ lives. And that makes me sad.”
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