Matt Damon became Ireland’s number one celebrity in 2020 after he was trapped here during lockdown. While it appeared as though he got stranded here after arriving on our shores, he tells EVOKE that he and his family actually took a vote and decided to stay. ‘We had never spent any real time there.
So we took a family vote and we decided to stay,’ he explains ahead of the release of his new film, The Last Duel which was filmed in part in Ireland. ‘We had the best time.
Our movie shut down the day we got to Ireland. So we had a choice to go home to America or stay there.’ The rest of the cast including his good friend and Jennifer Lopez’s boyfriend Ben Affleck, Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer and Star Wars actor Adam Driver all left Ireland to
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