
Clearly, that’s just the way he has always wanted it.ĭamon has shown a certain pragmatic efficiency in his choices of roles, valuing respected directors rather than taking huge risks on passion projects himself. Damon’s right: There’s little mystique about him. “I don’t think I’ve done anything to create any mystique around myself.” That everyman quality may be a mask - a mask that sometimes drops, such as in his infamous discussion with Effie Brown on Project Greenlight - but it has been an incredibly effective one. “I’m a married man with kids and there’s no scandal about me,” he said in 2015. This article was originally published in 2019 and has been updated to include Oppenheimer , Damon’s latest.įor someone who has lived his entire life in the public eye - he was playing the bad guy in School Ties while he was still at Harvard - Damon, unlike his famous buddy Ben Affleck, has done an excellent job at hiding in plain sight.



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