Matt Damon Talks Ben Affleck Gay Rumors & the Stggle of Comg Out Hollywood | Mic Tim

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• MATT DAMON TALKS BEN AFFLECK GAY MORS, SEXUALY -- AND REVEALS THE SECRET BEHD HIS PONYTAIL
• WHY MATT DAMON NEVER NIED MORS ABOUT A GAY RELATNSHIP WH BEN AFFLECK
• MATT DAMON TALKS BEN AFFLECK GAY RUMORS & THE STGGLE OF COMG OUT HOLLYWOOD
• MATT DAMON ON BEN AFFLECK GAY 'BROMANCE' RUMORS AND PLAYG LIBERACE'S LOVER
• IS MATT DAMON GAY? ACTOR SPEAKS OUT ABOUT RUMORS
• BEN AFFLECK AND MATT DAMON ORIGALLY HAD A GAY SEX SCENE IN THE ‘GOOD WILL HUNTG’ SCRIPT
• MATT DAMON FALLY OPENS UP ABOUT "GAY ROMANCE" WH BEN AFFLECK

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

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. They refe to ny the gay mors about them.

WHY MATT DAMON NEVER NIED MORS ABOUT A GAY RELATNSHIP WH BEN AFFLECK

Damon revealed to Playboy Magaze, "I never nied those mors bee I was offend and didn't want to offend my iends who were gay—as if beg gay were some kd of f***g disease. Stori speculatg the actor-wrers were a homosexual relatnship together began to is a topic that Damon has apparently never addrsed until now.

The 42-year-old actor, now married wh three dghters, recently exprsed sensivy around the longtime mor an terview wh Playboy:I never nied those mors bee I was offend and didn't want to offend my iends who were gay—as if beg gay were some kd of f----ng disease.

Damon recently said his star Michael Douglas, who plays the famed televisn and Las Vegas entertaer who lived his life as a closeted homosexual, is "a wonrful kisser. "I jt did a gay movie and a wboy movie.

MATT DAMON TALKS BEN AFFLECK GAY RUMORS & THE STGGLE OF COMG OUT HOLLYWOOD

I n't do a gay wboy movie now, " he relled tellg Van Sant.

"This movie's not gog to be for everyone, " he said, addg that he and Douglas have a lot of gay iends so, "we were not gog to screw this up or bulls--- . "Damon went on to say the film vers the timacy of their relatnship and portrays a marriage "long before there was gay marriage. " In a recent terview wh The Guardian, Damon opened up about mors that he had a gay relatnship wh Affleck and why he believ g out Hollywood n be a stggle.

"I'm sure, " Damon said to The Guardian after beg asked if 's hard for actors to be openly gay Hollywood.

MATT DAMON ON BEN AFFLECK GAY 'BROMANCE' RUMORS AND PLAYG LIBERACE'S LOVER

"When Ben and I first me on the scene there were mours that we were gay bee was two guys who wrote a script together. It's been reported the productn of the film was layed for years due to the lack of fundg, wh Hollywood studs llg the film "too gay. 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.

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.

"I never nied those mors bee I was offend and didn’t want to offend my iends who were gay -- as if beg gay were some kd of f**kg whole thg was jt gross, " Damon told the magaze. "Still, Damon is set to play gay the forthg HBO bpic, "Behd The Canlabra, " which he portrays Stt Thorson, the long-term lover of Liberace (Michael Douglas).

IS MATT DAMON GAY? ACTOR SPEAKS OUT ABOUT RUMORS

"The two men were eply love and a real relatnship -- a marriage -- long before there was gay marriage, " Damon says of the real-life pair. "As far as gettg to character was ncerned, he noted, "We both have a lot of gay iends, and we were not gog to screw this up or bullsh*t . " Before You GoGay Rumors Of The StarsPopular the CommunyYou May Like.

Matt Damon addrs gay mors around Ben Affleck iendshipEver sce Matt Damon and Ben Affleck h the pop culture nscns wh the Amy Award-wng "Good Will Huntg, " tabloids have speculated that the pair might be more than jt iends. "I never nied those mors bee I was offend and didn't want to offend my iends who were gay--as if beg gay were some kd of f***g disease, " he tells Playboy magaze. But as Damon not, there have been signs of progrs toward a better acceptance of gay people.

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

BEN AFFLECK AND MATT DAMON ORIGALLY HAD A GAY SEX SCENE IN THE ‘GOOD WILL HUNTG’ SCRIPT

"The two men were eply love and a real relatnship—a marriage—long before there was gay marriage. One of them was that a gay sex scene was the origal script Ben Affleck and Matt Damon gave him for “Good Will Huntg.

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have been plagued by mours they're more than jt iends for a number of pair - who’ve been bt mat sce childhood - first shot to fame after wrg and starrg their Osr-wng film Good Will Huntg they have both married, had children and bought ho down the road om each other, the Hollywood heartthrobs have been cidly silent the face of gay now Matt has fally broken his silence and opened up about why they didn’t bother nyg their supposed Bourne Inty star told Playboy magaze: “I never nied those mours bee I was offend and didn’t want to offend my iends who were gay - as if beg gay were some kd of f*ckg disease. Matt Damon fally opens up about "gay romance" wh Ben Affleck.

MATT DAMON FALLY OPENS UP ABOUT "GAY ROMANCE" WH BEN AFFLECK

”The 42-year-old actor was fur at the time, pecially as he was put the difficult suatn of possibly upsettg the gay muny if he nied the thankfully never affected his close iendship wh his school iend Ben and they’ve ntued to be bt mat and work together producg movi for their pany Pearl Street recent years, the father-of-three has bee more vol about his polil views and alongsi his former -stars Gee Clooney and Brad Pt, he has been a passnate supporter of gay ntued: “But look, there have been great signs of progrs - the fact that Anrson Cooper and Ellen DeGener n e out so betifully and powerfully, and ’s a big f*ckg al that turns out nobody giv a sh*t.