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• MATT DAMON TALKS BEN AFFLECK GAY MORS, SEXUALY -- AND REVEALS THE SECRET BEHD HIS PONYTAIL
• MATT DAMON TALKS BEN AFFLECK GAY RUMORS & THE STGGLE OF COMG OUT HOLLYWOOD
• I'M GAY. I APPLD MATT DAMON FOR BEG A BETTER PERSON | OPN
• MATT DAMON ON BEN AFFLECK GAY 'BROMANCE' RUMORS AND PLAYG LIBERACE'S LOVER
• MATT DAMON OPENS UP ABOUT GAY MOURS WH BT BUDDY BEN AFFLECK
• 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
• WHY MATT DAMON NEVER NIED MORS ABOUT A GAY RELATNSHIP 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.

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

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

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

He got to aga this week after tellg the Sunday Tim about a joke he cracked at home that rulted one of his dghters wrg a “treatise” to her 50-year-old father on why the “f-slur for a homosexual” is dangero. This led to more qutns: Why did an actor who has been Hollywood for three s and played multiple gay characters thk that was somethg he should share?

He ultimately issued an apology and acknowledged, retrospect, that the scene looked really that year, the term “Damonsplag” took off after he told the Guardian that actors shouldn’t disclose their sexualy, so they n rema a mystery; he brought up Rupert Everett as an example, and many terpreted this as him sayg gay actors should stay the closet. " 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.

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

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

MATT DAMON OPENS UP ABOUT GAY MOURS WH BT BUDDY BEN AFFLECK

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. They refe to ny the gay mors about them.

IS MATT DAMON GAY? ACTOR SPEAKS OUT ABOUT RUMORS

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. "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.

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.

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

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.

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

Like Matt Damon, they weren't homophobic, eher.