Matt Damon is opening up about a “depression” his wife helped him through when a movie he was working on turned out to be a bust.
While promoting “Oppenheimer,” the 52-year-old Oscar winner told webseries “Jake’s Takes” about how wife Luciana Barroso has stood by his side and encouraged him to push through his career lows.
“Sometimes you find yourself in a movie that perhaps might not be what you had hoped it would be and you’re still making it … you’ve still got months to go,” Damon said, though he didn’t name any specific film he was referring to. He noted times he remembers Barroso “pulling me up because I fell into a depression about, like, ‘What have I done?’”
Damon said he has been deeply affected by not just realizing, mid-production, that something was a “losing effort,” but that he had uprooted his family in order to take part in the project.
Barroso, he noted, “just said, ‘We’re here now.’”
The “Air” star added, “I do pride myself, in a large part because of her, at being a professional actor,” which he said means chugging along and giving everything you’ve got, even after becoming aware that a project won’t go as planned.
“If you can do that with the best possible attitude, then you’re a pro,” Damon said. “And she really helped me with that.”
Damon and Barroso met in Miami in 2003 and married in December 2005. The couple share three daughters, ages 17, 14 and 12. Damon is also a stepdad to 24-year-old daughter, Alexia, from Barroso’s previous marriage.