Matt Damon on Gay Actors the Closet: “People Shouldn’t Know Anythg About Your Sexualy” – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• AFTER UPROAR, MATT DAMON TRI TO CLARIFY COMMENTS ON ANTI-GAY SLUR
• IS MATT DAMON GAY? ACTOR SPEAKS OUT ABOUT RUMORS
• I'M GAY. I APPLD MATT DAMON FOR BEG A BETTER PERSON | OPN
• MATT DAMON TALKS BEN AFFLECK GAY MORS, SEXUALY -- AND REVEALS THE SECRET BEHD HIS PONYTAIL
• MATT DAMON DRAGGED FOR ONLY JT GIVG UP USG ANTI-GAY ‘F-SLUR’
• MATT DAMON SUGGTS GAY ACTORS SHOULD STAY THE CLOSET
• MATT DAMON SAYS HE NEVER USED ANTI-GAY ‘F-SLUR’ FOLLOWG INTERVIEW CONTROVERSY, GLAAD RPONDS
• BRAD PT, LEONARDO DICAPR AND MATT DAMON TURNED DOWN GAY LOVE STORY 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'
• MATT DAMON DENI USG THE “F-SLUR” FOR GAY PEOPLE FOLLOWG CONTROVERSY“I HAVE NEVER LLED ANYONE ‘F****T’ MY PERSONAL LIFE AND THIS NVERSATN WH MY DGHTER WAS NOT A PERSONAL AWAKENG,” THE OSR WNER SAID A STATEMENT.BY SAVANNAH WALSHAUGT 2, 2021THEO WARGOSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEUPDATE (TUDAY, AUGT 3, 9:30 A.M. ET): MATT DAMON IS APPARENTLY WALKG BACK MENTS HE MA A RECENT TERVIEW ABOUT CEASG HIS E OF THE “F-SLUR FOR A HOMOSEXUAL” MONTHS AGO. FOLLOWG WISPREAD NTROVERSY, HE NIED HIS PERSONAL E OF THE TERM A STATEMENT TO THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER:“DURG A RECENT TERVIEW, I RELLED A DISCSN I HAD WH MY DGHTER WHERE I ATTEMPTED TO NTEXTUALIZE FOR HER THE PROGRS THAT HAS BEEN MA – THOUGH BY NO MEANS PLETED – SCE I WAS GROWG UP BOSTON AND, AS A CHILD, HEARD THE WORD ‘F*G’ ED ON THE STREET BEFORE I KNEW WHAT EVEN REFERRED TO. I EXPLAED THAT THAT WORD WAS ED NSTANTLY AND SUALLY AND WAS EVEN A LE OF DIALOGUE A MOVIE OF ME AS RECENTLY AS 2003; SHE TURN EXPRSED CRLY THAT THERE ULD EVER HAVE BEEN A TIME WHERE THAT WORD WAS ED UNTHKGLY. TO MY ADMIRATN AND PRI, SHE WAS EXTREMELY ARTICULATE ABOUT THE EXTENT TO WHICH THAT WORD WOULD HAVE BEEN PAFUL TO SOMEONE THE LGBTQ+ MUNY REGARDLS OF HOW CULTURALLY NORMALIZED WAS. I NOT ONLY AGREED WH HER BUT THRILLED AT HER PASSN, VALU AND SIRE FOR SOCIAL JTICE,” DAMON SAID A STATEMENT PROVID TO THE OUTLET.HE NTUED, “I HAVE NEVER LLED ANYONE ‘F****T’ MY PERSONAL LIFE AND THIS NVERSATN WH MY DGHTER WAS NOT A PERSONAL AWAKENG. I DO NOT E SLURS OF ANY KD. I HAVE LEARNED THAT ERADITG PREJUDICE REQUIR ACTIVE MOVEMENT TOWARD JTICE RATHER THAN FDG PASSIVE FORT IMAGG MYSELF ‘ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS.’ AND GIVEN THAT OPEN HOSTILY AGAST THE LGBTQ+ MUNY IS STILL NOT UNMON, I UNRSTAND WHY MY STATEMENT LED MANY TO ASSUME THE WORST. TO BE AS CLEAR AS I N BE, I STAND WH THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.”GLAAD’S HEAD OF TALENT ANTHONY ALLEN RAMOS ALSO RELEASED A STATEMENT REGARDG DAMON’S E OF THE SLUR ON MONDAY EVENG:“THE NVERSATNS THAT HAVE ARISEN AFTER MATT DAMON’S ORIGAL TERVIEW AND SUBSEQUENT REMARKS TODAY ARE AN IMPORTANT REMR THAT THIS WORD, OR ANY WORD THAT AIMS TO DISPARAGE AND DISRPECT LGBTQ PEOPLE, HAS NO PLACE MASTREAM MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, CLASSROOMS, WORKPLAC, AND BEYOND,” SAID RAMOS. “THERE NEEDS TO BE ACUNTABILY AT A TIME WHEN ANTI-LGBTQ SLURS REMA RAMPANT TODAY AND N FUEL DISCRIMATN AND STEREOTYP, PECIALLY WHEN ED BY THOSE OUTSI OF THE MUNY TO FAME OR SCRIBE LGBTQ PEOPLE.”THE ORIGAL STORY NTU BELOW.BEN AFFLECK MAY BE RELIVG HIS EARLY-GHTS ROMANCE WH JENNIFER LOPEZ, BUT HIS BT IEND MATT DAMON APPEARS TO BE STUCK THE PAST. IN A NEW TERVIEW WH THE U.K.’S SUNDAY TIM, THE OSR WNER SHARED THAT HE ONLY STOPPED G THE “F-SLUR FOR A HOMOSEXUAL” RECENTLY, AFTER HIS DGHTER OBJECTED TO THE TERM. DAMON ARGUED THAT THE ROGATORY WORD “WAS MONLY ED WHEN I WAS A KID, WH A DIFFERENT APPLITN.”THIS BIZARRE ADMISSN ME DURG AN TERVIEW FOR DAMON’S NEW FILM STILLWATER, WHERE HE DISCSED “CHANG MORN MASCULY.” THE ACTOR, WHO HAS PLAYED QUEER ROL BEHD THE CANLABRA AND THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, THEN GAVE AN EXPLANATN FOR HIS NTUED E OF OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE. “I MA A JOKE, MONTHS AGO, AND GOT A TREATISE OM MY DGHTER. SHE LEFT THE TABLE,” HE TOLD THE SUNDAY TIM, ALTHOUGH HE DIDN’T SPECIFY WHICH OF HIS FOUR DGHTERS WAS VOLVED. “I SAID, ‘COME ON, THAT’S A JOKE! I SAY THE MOVIE STUCK ON YOU!’ SHE WENT TO HER ROOM AND WROTE A VERY LONG, BETIFUL TREATISE ON HOW THAT WORD IS DANGERO. I SAID, ‘I RETIRE THE F-SLUR!’ I UNRSTOOD.”IN THE SAME TERVIEW, DAMON ALSO REFLECTED ON HIS IAL RPONSE TO SEXUAL ASSLT ACCATNS AGAST HOLLYWOOD MOGUL HARVEY WESTE. “AS THE FATHER OF FOUR DGHTERS, THIS IS THE KD OF SEXUAL PREDATN THAT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT,” HE TOLD DEADLE AT THE TIME. CRICS HAMMERED DAMON FOR IMPLYG THAT ONE’S PROXIMY TO WOMEN TERM WHETHER ONE SHOULD BE OFFEND BY SEXUAL ABE. “I UNRSTAND. IT’S A FAIR POT. ANYBODY SHOULD BE OFFEND BY THAT BEHAVR,” DAMON TOLD THE TIM. MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRACHEL LEVISS SEEMGLY QUS VANRPUMP RUL WH HELP FROM BETHENNY FRANKELBY SAVANNAH WALSHPRCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S HEART OF INVICT NETFLIX DOC GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATEBY KASE WICKMANHE DID MATA THAT HIS ABILY TO SPEAK EELY ABOUT SUCH TOPICS WHOUT CRICISM HAD WANED, THOUGH. “TWENTY YEARS AGO, THE BT WAY I N PUT IS THAT THE JOURNALIST LISTENED TO THE MIC MORE THAN THE LYRICS [OF AN TERVIEW],” DAMON SAID. “NOW YOUR LYRICS ARE GETTG PARSED, TO PULL THEM OUT OF NTEXT AND GET THE BT HEADLE POSSIBLE. EVERYONE NEEDS CLICKS. BEFORE DIDN’T REALLY MATTER WHAT I SAID, BEE DIDN’T MAKE THE NEWS. BUT MAYBE THIS SHIFT IS A GOOD THG. SO I SHUT THE FUCK UP MORE.”AT LEAST ONE PERSON FEELS DAMON’S “SPORADIC UN-WOKE GAFF” ULD MAKE HIM A PRIME POLIL NDIDATE THE FUTURE. WRER MATTHEW YGLIAS TWEETED ON SUNDAY THAT DAMON “IS THE NDIDATE DEMOCRATS NEED TO W BACK MORE VOTERS THAT TOP-LEFT BOX OM THE VOTER STUDY GROUP.” IN ADDN TO HIS PASSN FOR “MIMUM WAGE AND LABOR ISSU,” YGLIAS ARGUED THAT DAMON’S RECENT RETIRG OF ANTI-GAY SLURS WILL “MAKE PEOPLE WH RETROGRA CULTURAL VIEWS FEEL FORTABLE WH HIM.” THAT’S CERTALY ONE WAY TO LOOK AT !MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— SEARCHG FOR THE TTH ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDA AND ASIA ARGENTO— HOW NEVER HAVE I EVER TORE UP THE “IMMIGRANT MOM” TROPE— WHAT BLACK WIDOW’S FAL MUT MEAN FOR THE MCU’S FUTURE— CAN HOT PEOPLE ANIMAL MASKS FD TE LOVE ON SEXY BEASTS?— THE BT SHOWS AND MOVI COMG TO NETFLIX AUGT— THE POIGNANT STORY BEHD ANTHONY BOURDA’S FAVORE SONG— HOW BRAD AND ANGELA INSPIRED LOKI’S FALE— THE BALLAD OF BOBBY DAR AND SANDRA DEE— FROM THE ARCHIVE: RICHARD GULLY, THE MAN HOLLYWOOD TSTED— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF AWARDS INSIR.SAVANNAH WALSH
• MATT DAMON'S E OF A GAY SLUR ANY NTEXT 2021 IS UNACCEPTABLE AND EMBARRASSG
• ALL THE EVINCE MATT DAMON'S CHARACTER IN THE DEPARTED IS SECRETLY GAY
• MATT DAMON APPARENTLY DIDN’T UNRSTAND THE PROBLEM WH THE ANTI-GAY ‘F-SLUR’ UNTIL RECENTLY. HERE’S A LSON.

AFTER UPROAR, MATT DAMON TRI TO CLARIFY COMMENTS ON ANTI-GAY SLUR

Movi|After Uproar, Matt Damon Tri to Clarify Comments on Anti-Gay Slur ADVERTISEMENTThe actor was recently quoted as sayg that he had cid to “retire” the word his dghter lls the “f-slur” after she objected to a joke he Wargo/Getty ImagFacg a backlash after he was quoted sayg he had recently cid to “retire” a homophobic slur, the actor Matt Damon said a statement on Monday that “I do not e slurs of any kd.

Damon reunted a nversatn wh his dghter durg which he “ma a joke” that moved her to wre him an say on the historil harm of what she lls “the ‘f-slur for a homosexual.

IS MATT DAMON GAY? ACTOR SPEAKS OUT ABOUT RUMORS

“The word that my dghter lls the ‘f-slur for a homosexual’ was monly ed when I was a kid, wh a different applitn, ” Mr. 2015, he told The Guardian that actg, was key that “people shouldn’t know anythg about your sexualy bee that’s one of the mysteri that you should be able to play, ” addg that he imaged “ mt be really hard” for gay actors to be public about their sexualy. Matt Damon has at last spoken out about old mors that he and his actor pal Ben Affleck have had a gay star of the "Bourne" movi was the foc of speculatn early his reer, the "Good Will Huntg" days, that he and Affleck had a romantic relatnship, but they seem to have died down recent a new terview wh Playboy magaze, Damon -- who has been married to Luciana Barroso for seven years -- speaks to those mors, addrsg why he never dignified them wh a nial:“I never nied those mors bee I was offend and didn’t want to offend my iends who were gay, ” the actor told Playboy, “as if beg gay were some kd of f--kg disease.

I'M GAY. I APPLD MATT DAMON FOR BEG A BETTER PERSON | OPN

”But unfortunately, Damon not, Liberace's time was not one which was nsired acceptable for stars to be openly gay.

"The two men were eply love and a real relatnship—a marriage—long before there was gay marriage. "That was my recurrg thought as I saw the unfoldg furor over Matt Damon's recent terview wh the Tim which the actor admted he'd only recently stopped g a slur to refer to gay people. "The word that my dghter lls the 'f-slur for a homosexual' was monly ed when I was a kid, wh a different applitn, " the actor said, explag that he recently ma a joke g the slur.

MATT DAMON TALKS BEN AFFLECK GAY MORS, SEXUALY -- AND REVEALS THE SECRET BEHD HIS PONYTAIL

The tweets were fast and fur: "If Matt Damon's g homophobic slurs at the dner table 2021, you n't tell me he's not g racist slurs too. As a person who was equently tnted for beg gay as a kid growg up Appalachia, who was himself lled the "f-slur" too many tim to unt, you might be surprised to learn that I dissent. Instead of admirg the is grace of changg one's md and givg up hurtful language, the social jtice mob dragged Damon over the proverbial als, sperate to e this as evince of his Damon is not homophobic.

I remember sperately tryg to expla to my straight male iends—who had been my iends for years, who had stood by me through thick and th, and had even fend me om homophobia—why the word bothered me so much. Like Matt Damon, they weren't homophobic, eher. And if Damon had doubled down on the homophobic slur after his dghter cricized him, if he had gotten fensive and relcrant, there would be ample room for that is not what happened.

MATT DAMON DRAGGED FOR ONLY JT GIVG UP USG ANTI-GAY ‘F-SLUR’

If we on the Left, cludg those of the gay muny, are ser about makg social progrs and broang acceptance and cln for LGBT people, Matt Damon should be ld, not lambasted. "If Matt Damon’s g homophobic slurs at the dner table 2021, you n’t tell me he’s not g racist slurs too.

Matt Damon found himself more hot water this weekend when his take on mors that he and Ben Affleck were gay turned to a discsn of gay actors , about that ponytail he was sportg over the summer: It wasn’t real. “When Ben and I first me on the scene, there were mors that we were gay bee was two guys who wrote a script together, ” he said. ”That revelatn was ma while Damon, who has four kids wh wife Luciana Barroso, said he believ openly gay actors have a more difficult time Hollywood.

“At the time [of the Affleck mors], I remember thkg and sayg, Rupert Everett was openly gay and this guy — more handsome than anybody, a classilly traed actor — ’s tough to make the argument that he didn’t take a h for beg out. ”Though he believ attus are changg, he champns same-sex marriage and he played Liberace’s gay lover HBO’s 2013 film “Behd the Canlabra, ” the actor took some heat for his next quote, which several outlets terpreted as him sayg that gay actors should not e out.

MATT DAMON SUGGTS GAY ACTORS SHOULD STAY THE CLOSET

Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anythg about your sexualy bee that’s one of the mysteri that you should be able to play.

The gay remarks me soon after he was cricized for “Damonsplag” diversy an episo of HBO’s “Project Greenlight.

MATT DAMON SAYS HE NEVER USED ANTI-GAY ‘F-SLUR’ FOLLOWG INTERVIEW CONTROVERSY, GLAAD RPONDS

In his latt attempt to clarify somethg cendiary he’s said an terview, Matt Damon sisted that he misspoke when he recently told the Sunday Tim he only stopped g an anti-gay slur “months ago, ” and only bee his dghter explaed to him that was offensive. Notably, Damon got trouble 2015 for what some viewed as his suggtg that gay actors stay closeted.

“Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anythg about your sexualy bee that’s one of the mysteri that you should be able to play.

Damon claimed that the gossip put him and Affleck the posn of havg to ny they were gay, a suatn that he said was “really eply offensive. ” Damon explaed they didn’t want people to falsely assume they were gay bee they knew would hurt their reers.

BRAD PT, LEONARDO DICAPR AND MATT DAMON TURNED DOWN GAY LOVE STORY 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'

“But at the time, I remember thkg and sayg, Rupert Everett was openly gay and this guy — more handsome than anybody, a classilly traed actor — ’s tough to make the argument that he didn’t take a h for beg out.

He went on “The Ellen DeGener Show” and said his remarks were ma “ the ntext of when Ben (Affleck) and I first started, and people wrote all the articl, when ‘Good Will Huntg’ me out, that we were gay bee was two guys who wrote the script. Matt Damon Viss Ellen DeGener to Correct His Remarks About Gay Actors: WATCH. “And somebody picked up and said I said gay actors should get back the closet.

Instead, he lnched to “the sort of anecdote people make headl about” — the story about how he stopped g the slur for gay people. He said he apparently ma a joke, g “the ‘f-slur for a homosexual, '” which he explaed “was monly ed when I was a kid, wh a different applitn.

MATT DAMON DENI USG THE “F-SLUR” FOR GAY PEOPLE FOLLOWG CONTROVERSY“I HAVE NEVER LLED ANYONE ‘F****T’ MY PERSONAL LIFE AND THIS NVERSATN WH MY DGHTER WAS NOT A PERSONAL AWAKENG,” THE OSR WNER SAID A STATEMENT.BY SAVANNAH WALSHAUGT 2, 2021THEO WARGOSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEUPDATE (TUDAY, AUGT 3, 9:30 A.M. ET): MATT DAMON IS APPARENTLY WALKG BACK MENTS HE MA A RECENT TERVIEW ABOUT CEASG HIS E OF THE “F-SLUR FOR A HOMOSEXUAL” MONTHS AGO. FOLLOWG WISPREAD NTROVERSY, HE NIED HIS PERSONAL E OF THE TERM A STATEMENT TO THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER:“DURG A RECENT TERVIEW, I RELLED A DISCSN I HAD WH MY DGHTER WHERE I ATTEMPTED TO NTEXTUALIZE FOR HER THE PROGRS THAT HAS BEEN MA – THOUGH BY NO MEANS PLETED – SCE I WAS GROWG UP BOSTON AND, AS A CHILD, HEARD THE WORD ‘F*G’ ED ON THE STREET BEFORE I KNEW WHAT EVEN REFERRED TO. I EXPLAED THAT THAT WORD WAS ED NSTANTLY AND SUALLY AND WAS EVEN A LE OF DIALOGUE A MOVIE OF ME AS RECENTLY AS 2003; SHE TURN EXPRSED CRLY THAT THERE ULD EVER HAVE BEEN A TIME WHERE THAT WORD WAS ED UNTHKGLY. TO MY ADMIRATN AND PRI, SHE WAS EXTREMELY ARTICULATE ABOUT THE EXTENT TO WHICH THAT WORD WOULD HAVE BEEN PAFUL TO SOMEONE THE LGBTQ+ MUNY REGARDLS OF HOW CULTURALLY NORMALIZED WAS. I NOT ONLY AGREED WH HER BUT THRILLED AT HER PASSN, VALU AND SIRE FOR SOCIAL JTICE,” DAMON SAID A STATEMENT PROVID TO THE OUTLET.HE NTUED, “I HAVE NEVER LLED ANYONE ‘F****T’ MY PERSONAL LIFE AND THIS NVERSATN WH MY DGHTER WAS NOT A PERSONAL AWAKENG. I DO NOT E SLURS OF ANY KD. I HAVE LEARNED THAT ERADITG PREJUDICE REQUIR ACTIVE MOVEMENT TOWARD JTICE RATHER THAN FDG PASSIVE FORT IMAGG MYSELF ‘ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS.’ AND GIVEN THAT OPEN HOSTILY AGAST THE LGBTQ+ MUNY IS STILL NOT UNMON, I UNRSTAND WHY MY STATEMENT LED MANY TO ASSUME THE WORST. TO BE AS CLEAR AS I N BE, I STAND WH THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.”GLAAD’S HEAD OF TALENT ANTHONY ALLEN RAMOS ALSO RELEASED A STATEMENT REGARDG DAMON’S E OF THE SLUR ON MONDAY EVENG:“THE NVERSATNS THAT HAVE ARISEN AFTER MATT DAMON’S ORIGAL TERVIEW AND SUBSEQUENT REMARKS TODAY ARE AN IMPORTANT REMR THAT THIS WORD, OR ANY WORD THAT AIMS TO DISPARAGE AND DISRPECT LGBTQ PEOPLE, HAS NO PLACE MASTREAM MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, CLASSROOMS, WORKPLAC, AND BEYOND,” SAID RAMOS. “THERE NEEDS TO BE ACUNTABILY AT A TIME WHEN ANTI-LGBTQ SLURS REMA RAMPANT TODAY AND N FUEL DISCRIMATN AND STEREOTYP, PECIALLY WHEN ED BY THOSE OUTSI OF THE MUNY TO FAME OR SCRIBE LGBTQ PEOPLE.”THE ORIGAL STORY NTU BELOW.BEN AFFLECK MAY BE RELIVG HIS EARLY-GHTS ROMANCE WH JENNIFER LOPEZ, BUT HIS BT IEND MATT DAMON APPEARS TO BE STUCK THE PAST. IN A NEW TERVIEW WH THE U.K.’S SUNDAY TIM, THE OSR WNER SHARED THAT HE ONLY STOPPED G THE “F-SLUR FOR A HOMOSEXUAL” RECENTLY, AFTER HIS DGHTER OBJECTED TO THE TERM. DAMON ARGUED THAT THE ROGATORY WORD “WAS MONLY ED WHEN I WAS A KID, WH A DIFFERENT APPLITN.”THIS BIZARRE ADMISSN ME DURG AN TERVIEW FOR DAMON’S NEW FILM STILLWATER, WHERE HE DISCSED “CHANG MORN MASCULY.” THE ACTOR, WHO HAS PLAYED QUEER ROL BEHD THE CANLABRA AND THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, THEN GAVE AN EXPLANATN FOR HIS NTUED E OF OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE. “I MA A JOKE, MONTHS AGO, AND GOT A TREATISE OM MY DGHTER. SHE LEFT THE TABLE,” HE TOLD THE SUNDAY TIM, ALTHOUGH HE DIDN’T SPECIFY WHICH OF HIS FOUR DGHTERS WAS VOLVED. “I SAID, ‘COME ON, THAT’S A JOKE! I SAY THE MOVIE STUCK ON YOU!’ SHE WENT TO HER ROOM AND WROTE A VERY LONG, BETIFUL TREATISE ON HOW THAT WORD IS DANGERO. I SAID, ‘I RETIRE THE F-SLUR!’ I UNRSTOOD.”IN THE SAME TERVIEW, DAMON ALSO REFLECTED ON HIS IAL RPONSE TO SEXUAL ASSLT ACCATNS AGAST HOLLYWOOD MOGUL HARVEY WESTE. “AS THE FATHER OF FOUR DGHTERS, THIS IS THE KD OF SEXUAL PREDATN THAT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT,” HE TOLD DEADLE AT THE TIME. CRICS HAMMERED DAMON FOR IMPLYG THAT ONE’S PROXIMY TO WOMEN TERM WHETHER ONE SHOULD BE OFFEND BY SEXUAL ABE. “I UNRSTAND. IT’S A FAIR POT. ANYBODY SHOULD BE OFFEND BY THAT BEHAVR,” DAMON TOLD THE TIM. MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRACHEL LEVISS SEEMGLY QUS VANRPUMP RUL WH HELP FROM BETHENNY FRANKELBY SAVANNAH WALSHPRCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S HEART OF INVICT NETFLIX DOC GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATEBY KASE WICKMANHE DID MATA THAT HIS ABILY TO SPEAK EELY ABOUT SUCH TOPICS WHOUT CRICISM HAD WANED, THOUGH. “TWENTY YEARS AGO, THE BT WAY I N PUT IS THAT THE JOURNALIST LISTENED TO THE MIC MORE THAN THE LYRICS [OF AN TERVIEW],” DAMON SAID. “NOW YOUR LYRICS ARE GETTG PARSED, TO PULL THEM OUT OF NTEXT AND GET THE BT HEADLE POSSIBLE. EVERYONE NEEDS CLICKS. BEFORE DIDN’T REALLY MATTER WHAT I SAID, BEE DIDN’T MAKE THE NEWS. BUT MAYBE THIS SHIFT IS A GOOD THG. SO I SHUT THE FUCK UP MORE.”AT LEAST ONE PERSON FEELS DAMON’S “SPORADIC UN-WOKE GAFF” ULD MAKE HIM A PRIME POLIL NDIDATE THE FUTURE. WRER MATTHEW YGLIAS TWEETED ON SUNDAY THAT DAMON “IS THE NDIDATE DEMOCRATS NEED TO W BACK MORE VOTERS THAT TOP-LEFT BOX OM THE VOTER STUDY GROUP.” IN ADDN TO HIS PASSN FOR “MIMUM WAGE AND LABOR ISSU,” YGLIAS ARGUED THAT DAMON’S RECENT RETIRG OF ANTI-GAY SLURS WILL “MAKE PEOPLE WH RETROGRA CULTURAL VIEWS FEEL FORTABLE WH HIM.” THAT’S CERTALY ONE WAY TO LOOK AT !MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— SEARCHG FOR THE TTH ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDA AND ASIA ARGENTO— HOW NEVER HAVE I EVER TORE UP THE “IMMIGRANT MOM” TROPE— WHAT BLACK WIDOW’S FAL MUT MEAN FOR THE MCU’S FUTURE— CAN HOT PEOPLE ANIMAL MASKS FD TE LOVE ON SEXY BEASTS?— THE BT SHOWS AND MOVI COMG TO NETFLIX AUGT— THE POIGNANT STORY BEHD ANTHONY BOURDA’S FAVORE SONG— HOW BRAD AND ANGELA INSPIRED LOKI’S FALE— THE BALLAD OF BOBBY DAR AND SANDRA DEE— FROM THE ARCHIVE: RICHARD GULLY, THE MAN HOLLYWOOD TSTED— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF AWARDS INSIR.SAVANNAH WALSH

It’s not really summer whout a few celebry sndals, and the latt revolv around actor Matt Damon and a recent terview which he appeared to normalize the e of an offensive gay slur.

MATT DAMON'S E OF A GAY SLUR ANY NTEXT 2021 IS UNACCEPTABLE AND EMBARRASSG

Matt Damon bizarrely admted a new terview that he only recently stopped g the “the f-slur for a homosexual” after his dghter wrote a “treatise” on why g the word to refer to people, gay or otherwise, is nfsg this an terview wh the U. ’s Sunday Tim to promote his new movie “Stillwater, ” Damon was the target of many mem as well as poted cricism as many people onle qutned both why he cid to share this rmatn — and also why he was still g such a rogatory term Boston-born leadg man said the “f-slur for a homosexual” was “monly ed when I was a kid, wh a different applitn. “And his Gen Z baby told him a homophobic slur is not okay.

”Openly gay edian Billy Eichner joked that he wants to know which word Damon is g now stead of the f-slur.

And his Gen Z baby told him a homophobic slur is not okay.

ALL THE EVINCE MATT DAMON'S CHARACTER IN THE DEPARTED IS SECRETLY GAY

— Atima Omara (@atima_omara) Augt 1, 2021I have ranch drsg that has been my idge longer than Matt Damon has NOT been g a homophobic slur and he somehow thks he serv praise for this Herculean effort. "I was a ragg homophobe until the precise logic of a *checks not* child rmed me there are more subtle ways to be a homophobe"-Matthias Damon, 2021— Jake Skner (@JakeDSkner) Augt 1, 2021*on the phone wh a major paper* my PR person said not to mentn slurs but I thk my relatnship to them is particularly betiful JP (@brammer) Augt 1, 2021I want to know what word Matt Damon has replaced f****t wh.

MATT DAMON APPARENTLY DIDN’T UNRSTAND THE PROBLEM WH THE ANTI-GAY ‘F-SLUR’ UNTIL RECENTLY. HERE’S A LSON.

— billy eichner (@billyeichner) Augt 1, 2021The fact that Matt Damon’s dghter had to expla to him that sayg a slur is wrong is sane — Cedri (@iamcedri) Augt 1, 2021matt damon’s wife when his dghter told him to stop sayg the f slur — ty (@signsbyty) Augt 1, 2021Read origal story Matt Damon Dragged for Only Jt Givg Up Usg Anti-Gay ‘F-Slur’ At TheWrap. Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anythg about your sexualy bee that’s one of the mysteri that you should be able to play. Damon, who has four children wh wife Luciana Barroso, said he was unfortable when mors were spread years ago that he and Good Will Huntg -wrer Ben Affleck might be a gay relatnship together.