Matt Damon Reveals Teenage Daughter Refuses to Watch His Greatest Movie

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By Lilian Scott , Parent Herald Jul 19, 09:33 pm

Hollywood superstar Matt Damon has a 15-year-old daughter, Isabella, who has no plans of watching one of his greatest movies, the Oscar-winning film "Good Will Hunting." The 50-year-old dad shared that his teen girl is not easy to impress and has been holding off watching movies where the actor has gotten raves from the critics.

In an interview with CBS This Morning, Damon said that Isabella likes to give him a hard time and only likes to watch her father's movies that bombed with the critics and at the box office. She told Damon that there was nothing "great" about his 2016 period flick, "The Great Wall," and he could not convince her to see "Good Will Hunting."

Damon admitted that "younger people" like his daughter no longer associate him with his Oscar-winning film, which came out in 1998 and also starred Robin Williams and Ben Affleck. However, the actor said that he appreciates Isabella's criticisms because it's what's keeping him grounded in Hollywood.

Matt Damon's Girls

Isabella Damon is the actor's first daughter with Luciana Barroso. Damon married his wife, an Argentinian, in 2005, after two years of dating. A year into their marriage, the couple welcomed Isabella.

However, Barroso has a daughter, Alexia, born in 1998 from her first marriage. Damon embraced Alexia like his own and adopted her.

Damon and Barroso then welcomed two more daughters, Gia in 2008 and Stella in 2010. In 2012, the actor said that he did not expect to be around so many women as a family man in an interview. The award-winning star said that he is learning so much as a father of four girls, joking that they are especially smarter than boys.

The successful Hollywood actor feels pretty lucky that the paparazzi leaves him and his girls alone so they have enjoyed normal life. They can also carry on with routines like any average family.

Damon said that when Isabella and her siblings were younger, they could go to the park after school, which surprised his high-profile friend, Brad Pitt, who was always in the news for his controversial marriage and family life with Angeline Jolie. The actor said that the press only loves to follow stars around if there is a scandal, but this has been absent in his life as a Hollywood star.

Stakes Higher with Kids

The happy family man has been doing the press rounds lately as he is promoting his latest movie, "Stillwater," where he plays a father who has to go to France to free his imprisoned daughter, played by Abigail Breslin. He said it was easy for him to draw emotions for this drama because he has children.

"The stakes are so much higher when you have kids," Damon said. "I don't have to reach for any emotions - whether it's joy or whether it's pain - because it's all just nearby."

Damon said that before filming "Stillwater," he had a family meeting with his wife and daughters, who agreed that he should sign onto the project even if he has to be in France and Oklahoma for more than two weeks. The Damons have a well-established and longstanding rule that dad shouldn't be away for work for more than two weeks.

However, this time, the girls relented and allowed him to break the rule because it was such a good opportunity. Damon said that it matters to him that his children see how much he loves his job.