Sunday Times, Damon seemed to suggest he was comfortable using “faggot” despite it being a homophobic slur.“The word that my daughter calls the ‘f-slur for a homosexual’ was commonly used when I was a kid, with a different application,” Damon, 50, said.“I made a joke, months ago, and got a treatise from my daughter,” the Stillwater star said. “She left the table.
I said, ‘Come on, that’s a joke! I say it in the movie Stuck on You!’”Damon’s daughter went to her room and “wrote a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous.
I said, ‘I retire the f-slur!’ I understood.”Elsewhere in his interview, Damon said the shifting nature of the media industry meant he had learned to “shut the fuck up more,” but reaction to his interview.
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