Matt Damon Reveals Wife Luciana Barroso Pulled Him Out of 'Depression' While on Set of a Movie
etonline.comMatt Damon has led a number of movies that have topped the box office and even garnered him accolades, including one Oscar win for co-writing and several other Academy Award nominations for acting, he admitted there has been a time where he found himself in a «losing effort,» causing him to fall into a depression while on set. «I think, without naming any particular movies, that sometimes you find yourself in a movie that perhaps might not be what you had hoped it would be and you're still making it,» Damon told Jake Hamilton, host of the YouTube interview series, while promoting his latest role in «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 recalled, referring to Luciana Barroso. «And she just said, 'We're here now,'» he revealed. «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 everything, even in what you know is going to be a losing effort,» Damon went on to say, while answering Hamilton's question about the best professional advice he's ever received from his spouse.
He added, «And if you can do that with the best possible attitude, then you're a pro. And she really helped me with that.» Damon first met Barroso while filming in Miami, Florida, in 2003.
Two years later, in 2005, they became engaged and were married in a private ceremony by December of that year. Together, they have three daughters, Isabella Damon, 17, Gia Damon, 14, and Stella Damon, 12. (The.
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