Matt Damon’s Spouse Thought Ben Affleck Was The “Cuter One”

I’d wish to assume everybody has heard the story of how Matt Damon met his spouse, Luciana Barroso, as a result of it’s truthfully like one thing out of a film. However should you haven’t, it’d be my honor to enlighten you.

So, when he was a rising star in Hollywood within the late ‘90s and early 2000s, Matt had relationships with fellow celebs like Minnie Driver and Winona Ryder. Nevertheless, he wound up assembly his wife-to-be completely unexpectedly in 2003 when she was a non-famous single mother working behind a bar in Miami.

Because the story goes, Matt was taking pictures the film Caught on You and got here to the bar for a drink along with his movie crew. This was in April 2003, by which level, he was already very, very well-known, having starred in motion pictures like Saving Personal Ryan, The Proficient Mr. Ripley, The Bourne Id, and, in fact, Good Will Looking, for which he received an Oscar.

As you possibly can think about, Matt was inundated with consideration, and so, he determined to cover behind the bar for some respite. It was there that he received to chatting to Luciana, whom he’d already noticed from throughout the room.

After hitting it off, Luciana prompt that Matt ought to assist serve some drinks, and, in fact, he received straight to work. “He had skilled as a bartender for a movie years earlier than, so he began making drinks,” Luciana advised Vogue Australia in 2018. “He made me a ton of cash in suggestions that evening, due to course everybody needed to go and see him. So it was a very enjoyable evening.”

They received married two years later and have since had three daughters collectively: Isabella, Gia, and Stella. Matt can also be a proud stepfather to Luciana’s daughter Alexia, who was 4 years outdated after they met.

Quick-forward practically 23 years since that fateful evening in Miami, and Matt has simply shared an all-important element about his and Luciana’s early relationship.

Showing on The Howard Stern Present on Jan. 12 alongside his BFF Ben Affleck, Matt revealed that when Luciana first watched Good Will Looking in theaters in 1997, he wasn’t the actor she was drawn to.

“That is fucking fully true: After we would been collectively for a short while, most likely a number of months, she admitted that — I believe I met her greatest pal from highschool and it got here out that the 2 of them went and noticed Good Will Looking collectively and her greatest pal thought I used to be the lovable one and he or she thought Ben was the lovable one,” Matt mentioned as his bestie laughed alongside him. “I am like ‘You bought the flawed one?!’”

In response, Howard joked {that a} piece of data like that would “stick with you” and trigger stress. Nevertheless, Ben stepped in to make clear that he and Luciana have all the time had a firmly platonic relationship — notably now that they work collectively.

“She produced my final film. She’s an ideal producer and a very good pal, and yeah, I by no means received that vibe from her,” Ben mentioned, laughing. “So I believe one thing I did in actual life rubbed it off.”

“Lastly, she met him, and all that went away,” Matt quipped. Earlier than joking that if Luciana ever left him for Ben, he’d lose his “two favourite individuals.” Awwwww.