‘Oppenheimer’ star Matt Damon promised wife he’d take a break from Hollywood before landing movie role
foxnews.comMatt Damon vowed to his wife that he would take some time off from Hollywood with only one stipulation – if he got an offer from Christoper Nolan, he would take it.
The 52-year-old actor admitted that after the promise was made to Luciana Barroso, he received a call from the esteemed director with an opportunity to join the cast of the widely anticipated "Oppenheimer," which, true to his word, he accepted. "This is going to sound made up, but it’s actually true," Damon began. "I had — not to get too personal — negotiated extensively with my wife that I was taking time off," he said during a panel discussion with Nolan and his "Oppenheimer" co-stars Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr.
for Entertainment Weekly. After appearing in Nolan’s film "Interstellar," Damon revealed the director "put me on ice for a couple movies" and that he wasn’t "in the rotation" during casting.
However, the one exception Damon and his wife agreed to was if the "Oppenheimer" director called him for the role. "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.
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