Matt Damon is making a very… interesting attempt to walk back his comments on homophobia. As we previously reported, while promoting his new film Stillwater, the actor revealed to the Sunday Times that he had only recently “retired” the “f-slur for a homosexual” from his vocabulary.
He told a story to the outlet about how his daughter had written him a “very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous” that opened his eyes to why he shouldn’t use hate speech. (Yep, it’s as bad as it sounds.) Related: Amanda Knox Says Matt’s Film Stillwater ‘Distorts My Reputation’ Predictably, the Oscar winner received a lot of backlash for this unprompted tale of private homophobia.
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