Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso’s Relationship Timeline
usmagazine.comA Hollywood success story! Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso have been going strong for two decades.The Oscar winner met Barroso when she was a single mother (daughter Alexia was 4 at the time) working at a bar in Miami in 2003.“I was working as a bartender in South Beach, and he was shooting a movie there and the crew ended up in the bar one Saturday night,” she recalled to Vogue in 2018. “Matt’s story is that he saw me across the room and there was a light on me.
And I’m like, ‘Yeah it was a nightclub — there were lights everywhere!’”Barroso noted that Damon was recognized by fans in the club and “hid behind my bar” when the crowd got aggressive.“He says, ‘Oh I saw you and I really wanted to talk to you,’” she continued. “So I put him to work with me!
I said, ‘You know, if you’re going to be back here, you can’t just be standing there!’ He had trained as a bartender for a film years before, so he started making drinks.
And he made me a ton of money in tips that night, because of course everyone wanted to go and see him. It turned into a really fun night and then 15 years later here we are!”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesBarroso and Damon wed in 2005 after two years of dating and added three more daughters — Isabella, Gia and Stella — to their family.“The thing for us has always been that just we try really hard to constantly talk about self-esteem and compassion, and hope that will carry on,” Barroso told the magazine. “We’re not always going to be able to be there when they have to make critical decisions in their life, so I just hope that they know how to respect themselves and respect others and to not hold back and do what they want to do, but always have in mind the effect on another human
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