Matt Damon is facing backlash after revealing in an interview that he only stopped using the 'f-slur for a homosexual' months ago after his daughter taught him 'how that word is dangerous.'
Matt Damon says he stopped using 'f-slur for a homosexual' after daughter told him it was 'dangerous'Matt Damon poses during a photocall for the film "Stillwater" at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on July 9, 2021.Matt Damon is facing backlash after revealing in an interview that he only stopped using the"f-slur for a homosexual" months ago after his daughter taught him"how that word is dangerous.
"Twenty years ago, the best way I can put it is that the journalist listened to the music more than the lyrics [of an interview]. Now your lyrics are getting parsed, to pull them out of context and get the best headline possible," Damon is quoted as saying before his slur story."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--- up more.
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