Oppenheimer actor Matt Damon admitted that he fell into “depression” halfway through shooting a movie he felt was a “losing effort”.
Ahead of his role in Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer, the 52-year-old actor and producer revealed that he regretted working on a previous project. The Hollywood star has appeared in several successful movies from Good Will Hunting to The Martian but there was one movie the actor didn’t feel great about and felt “depressed” during the production.
Matt Damon “fell into depression” while shooting film
The Oscar-winning star opened up about a time when he took his family for the production of a new film and “fell into depression” halfway through shooting.
“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,” Matt told Jake’s Takes on YouTube.
The Jason Bourne star continued: “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 was I fell into a depression about like, what have I done?”
Matt’s wife helped him go through the shooting
During the candid conversation, Matt revealed that his wife was the one who reminded him to keep his head high and act professionally while he finishes the project he felt it was a “losing effort.”
Matt explained: “And she just said, ‘We’re here now’, you know, and it was like… I do pride myself, in a large part because of her, on 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, you know, a losing effort.”
“And if you can do that with the best possible attitude, then you’re a pro, and she helped me with that,” the Interstellar star added.
The celebrity actor has been married to his wife Luciana Barroso, 46, since 2005. They are parents to four daughters – Alexia, Stella, Gia, and Isabella.
The Oppenheimer movie
Oppenheimer is a biographical thriller film telling the story of the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War. Matt plays a US Army lieutenant general Leslie “Dick” Groves.
Oppenheimer releases in cinemas in the UK and the US on July 21. The film also stars Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, and Robert Downey Jr.
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