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Matt Damon says one of his daughters will only watch his movies under one condition.
The Odyssey star admits she prefers his films to be “bad.”
Damon also shares how special it was to have his daughters and wife with him at The Odyssey premiere.
Matt Damon deals with film critics on a regular basis, but it turns out he faces some harsh feedback at home as well.
The actor, 55, stopped by Late Night With Seth Meyers on Thursday to promote his starring role in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and admitted that one of his children, in particular, is a ball-buster.
When asked if his four daughters are huge supporters of his work “no matter what,” Damon told Seth Meyers that they show his career love “in their own ways.”
“One of my daughters, she’s got a great sense of humor and our kind of banter is she basically says she’ll only see a movie that I’m in if she hears it’s bad,” he admitted, laughing. “Just to keep me humble. She’s excellent at that.”
Three years ago, Damon also spoke to Meyers about how his now-20-year-old daughter, Isabella, has a penchant for bringing him back down to earth.
“She is very clear about not wanting to see anything that I’m in if she thinks it might be good,” he reiterated. “So, if I get bad reviews or something, that’s the one she wants to see.”
Damon then brought up his “not very good” 2016 movie, The Great Wall, and shared Isabella’s nickname for it.
“My daughter was talking to one of her friends and she was [saying], ‘My dad did this movie The Wall.’ And she kept calling it The Wall. And I was finally like, ‘Isabella, that movie’s called The Great Wall.’ And she’s like, ‘Dad, there is nothing great about that movie.’”
Isabella, however, has been fully supporting her dad as he’s been promoting The Odyssey. She stood by his side, alongside her mom, Luciana Barroso, at both the New York and London premieres of the film, and her sisters — Alexia, 27, Gia, 17, and Stella, 15 — joined her in the U.K.
Matt Damon and his family at the U.K. premiere of ‘The Odyssey’ on July 6Credit: James Veysey/Shutterstock
“You had your whole family—the whole team came out to see The Odyssey,” Meyers noted of their red carpet appearance on Thursday, to which Damon replied, “Yeah, it was great. Everyone got dressed up. It was a great family night.”
Damon mentioned how emotional he was seeing his daughters all grown up at the event, telling Entertainment Tonight, “I’m so happy they’re here. Everybody’s so grown up, like, I got a real dad teary moment seeing them today. It’s a lot. It’s wonderful, but it’s a lot.”
He also revealed to PEOPLE in a recent interview that he and his longtime friend and collaborator Ben Affleck often get upset when talking about how old their children are.
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“We’re at very similar stages with the kids, and it’s definitely a new phase of life,” Damon said of him and Affleck, who shares three children — Violet, 20, Seraphina, 17, and Samuel, 13, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner. “It doesn’t take much to get us emotional at this point.”
He continued of his girls moving out of the house, “I feel like we are facing it and embracing the fact that it’s happening. We’ve been talking a lot about presence and about really trying to be in the moment, and because you can’t slow time down, the only way to really do it is to really be there and be in it.”
The Odyssey is in theaters now.
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