Matt Damon Says He Still Used ‘the F-Slur’ Up Until Some ‘Months Ago’

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“I made a joke, months ago, and got a treatise from my daughter. She left the table. I said, ‘Come on, that’s a joke! I say it in the movie Stuck on You!’”

Photo: Getty Images You know what they say: You can take the Masshole out of Boston, but you can’t take the Boston out of the Masshole. In an interview with the U.K.’s Sunday Times today, 50-year-old, Harvard-educated, Academy Award winner Matt Damon admitted that he only recently retired use of what he calls “the f-slur for a homosexual” from his personal lexicon.

The Times writer himself prefaces this story by writing, “Damon launches into exactly the sort of anecdote people make headlines about,” so maybe we’re just playing into Damon’s hand here.

 

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