Matt Damon Shares His Best Tips for Being a Father of a Daughter

As a father of four daughters, Matt Damon knows a thing or two about raising girls.

Despite his knowledge on the subject, the 53-year-old actor kept his cool as he shared his best tips for fatherhood during a Thursday, August 1, appearance on SiriusXM’s “Radio Andy.”

“Oh, man. I don’t know. “I’m not going to give advice to anybody except to try to listen and be helpful,” Damon told the broadcaster. Andy Cohen. “I mean at the end of the day, it’s about building confidence.”

He added, “You know, 99% of the decisions they make, you’re not going to be there, are you?”

Damon and his wife Luciana Barroso they had three daughters, Isabella, 18, Gia, 16, and Stella, 13.Oppenheimer The star is also stepfather to Alexia, 25, Luciana, 48, whom she shares with her ex-husband, Arbello Barosso. The family made a rare appearance together at the New York premiere The promoters Wednesday, July 31.

Although most of Damon’s daughters are old enough to date, the actor avoided the stereotype that he is an overprotective father to their boyfriends.

“I’m fine. That makes me happy. Do you know what I mean?” Damon responded after Cohen asked if he was the type to anoint his daughters-to-be. “That’s like an old trope that I think people, you know, like to play. You know, dads like to joke about it between each other I guess, sometimes, but no.”

In fact, it seems that Damon has the opposite attitude about his daughter’s boyfriends, with the actor revealing that he “loves” Alexia’s man.

“You know, at least, ours [25-year-old] she has, you know, this amazing boyfriend that Lucy and I just love,” Damon said. “We love the guy and to see him make those kinds of choices is, really, as good as it gets.”

I Jason Bourne The star often talks about his role as a father, previously denying that it was a responsibility he knew he would enjoy from the start.

“I knew I would love being a father and a husband. People who were already parents were saying to me: ‘Good!’ ‘It’s amazing!’” he told The Guardian March 2012. “But I don’t think you can really enjoy it until you see it for yourself. It’s really something. “

Related: Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso Relationship Timeline

A Hollywood success story! Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso have been going strong for twenty years. 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 salesman in South Beach, and he was shooting. […]

Since the couple’s children are grown now, said Damon CBS Mornings in July 2021 that they don’t let him get too big for his boots – especially Isabella.

“[Isabella] he doesn’t want to see the movies I’m in that he thinks are good. He likes to give me ist,” he laughed, realizing that he didn’t want to watch people being accused badly. Good Will Hunting. “My daughter said, ‘Oh, remember that movie you made, The wall?’ I said, ‘It was called The Great Wall.’ He said, ‘Dad, there was nothing good about that movie!’ You keep my feet firmly on the ground.”