Matt Damon Only Recently Stopped Using the ‘F-Slur’

Matt Damon says he solely not too long ago retired a homophobic slur from his vocabulary.

The actor sat down for an interview with The Sunday Times to advertise his new film, Stillwater. Through the dialog, he revealed that one among his daughters not too long ago satisfied him to not say a homophobic slur. (Damon and his spouse Luciana share 4 daughters, and it is unclear which daughter demanded that he not use the dangerous phrase.)

“The phrase that my daughter calls the ‘f-slur for a gay’ was generally used after I was a child, with a distinct software,” he advised the outlet. “I made a joke, months in the past, and bought a treatise from my daughter. She left the desk. I mentioned, ‘Come on, that’s a joke! I say it within the film Caught on You!’ She went to her room and wrote a really lengthy, lovely treatise on how that phrase is harmful. I mentioned, ‘I retire the f-slur!’ I understood.”

Although it is questionable why the actor was nonetheless utilizing such a dangerous slur in 2021, Damon claims he now understands the altering panorama of media and the world and is attempting to decide on his phrases extra fastidiously.

“Twenty years in the past, one of the best ways I can put it’s that the journalist listened to the music greater than the lyrics [of an interview],” he continued. “Now your lyrics are getting parsed, to drag them out of context and get the perfect headline attainable. Everybody wants clicks.”

“Earlier than it didn’t actually matter what I mentioned, as a result of it didn’t make the information,” Damon added. “However possibly this shift is an efficient factor. So I shut the f— up extra.”

Damon’s new movie, Stillwater, which is reportedly primarily based on the Amanda Knox story, has acquired important backlash from the general public, together with Knox herself.

Knox claims that the movie exploits her life and trauma. In a personal blog post, she wrote that she remains to be related to a criminal offense she says she did not commit.

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