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

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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 Hollywood.

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"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.

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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.

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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. 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.

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"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. 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.

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»Je n’ai jamais démenti c mrs parce que j’étais choqué et je ne voulais pas blser m amis homosexuels.

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Matt Damon is promotg his new film "Stillwater, " but a recent terview wh The Sunday Tim put him steamg hot water shared wh the terviewer a lson his dghter tght him several months ago: that he uld no longer e the "f-word" as a slur for gay "The word that my dghter lls the ‘f-slur for a homosexual’ was monly ed when I was a kid, wh a different applitn, ” Damon told The Sunday Tim a recent terview.

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"Matt Damon’s teen dghter told him f****t is a homophobic slur and to stop g , " edian Jenny Johnson wrote. "Billy Eichner chimed , too: "You’re still allowed to be homophobic this fake-woke dtry. "Not to mentn the fact the word has a adly nnotatn, too: "Countls gay men have been attacked, beaten and even killed wh that word beg the last thg they hear, but sure, go Matt, " Twter er @TJ_Knight wrote.

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