Matt Damon and Wife Luciana Barroso Negotiated His ‘Oppenheimer’ Role in Couples Therapy

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Matt Damon opened up about how he and his wife Luciana Barroso went to couples therapy to negotiate whether he would star in director Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.“I had — not to get too personal — negotiated extensively with my wife that I was taking time off,” Damon — who stars as J.

Robert Oppehnehimer, who oversaw the Manhattan Project, in the biographical thriller — told Entertainment Weekly on Monday, July 17. “I had been in Interstellar, and then Chris put me on ice for a couple of movies, so I wasn’t in the rotation, but I actually negotiated in couples therapy — this is a true story — the one caveat to my taking time off was if Chris Nolan called.

This is without knowing whether or not he was working on anything, because he never tells you. He just calls you out of the blue.

And so, it was a moment in my household.”At the beginning of the month, Damon, 52, also revealed how Barroso, 46, helped him with his mental health while working on a film project that didn’t go as planned.“Without naming any particular movies … sometimes you find yourself in a movie that you know, perhaps, might not be what you had hoped it would be, and you’re still making it,” Damon said during a July appearance on the “Jake’s Takes” podcast. “And I remember halfway through production and you’ve still got months to go and you’ve taken your family somewhere, you know, and you’ve inconvenienced them, and I remember my wife pulling me up because I fell into a depression about like, what have I done?”Damon added: “She just said, ‘We’re here now.’ It was like … I do pride myself, in a large part because of her, at being a professional actor and what being a professional actor means is you go and you do the 15-hour day and give it absolutely