The 50-year-old actor and star of the new film 'Stillwater' revealed that 'months ago' he stopped using the homophobic slur for gay men.
revealed that he recently stopped using the homophobic slur for gay men after his daughter said something to him about it.
Actor and producer Matt Damon attends the 89th Annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Feb. 6, 2017.“The word that my daughter calls the ‘f-slur for a homosexual’ was commonly used when I was a kid, with a different application,”. “I made a joke, months ago, and got a treatise from my daughter. She left the table.
We're not quite sure what daughter of the"Good Will Hunting" star's it was that led him to this revelation. Damon, Luciana Barroso: Alexia Barroso, 22, Isabella Damon, 15, Gia Damon, 12, and Stella Damon, 10. Damon also shared his thoughts on how journalism has changed in the last two decades, where interviews are being aggregated online with the most interesting soundbites at the front. Because of this, he has decided to edit a bit more of what he reveals.
“I just think that there’s a tendency now... “ he began."Twenty years ago, the best way I can put it is that the journalist listened to the music more than the lyrics . Now your lyrics are getting parsed, to pull them out of context and get the best headline possible. Everyone needs clicks. Before it didn’t really matter what I said, because it didn’t make the news. But maybe this shift is a good thing. So I shut the f-k up more.
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