Matt Damon is convinced Charlize Theron “won the genetic lottery” because she’s barely aged over the last few decades.
Matt Damon has spoken about his friend Charlize Theron
The pair first worked together 26 years ago when they starred in 2000 movie The Legend of Bagger Vance and they have reunited for Sir Christopher Nolan’s new epic The Odyssey – and Matt, 55, is convinced he’s “aged” more than his pal, who is five years his junior.
In an interview with ELLE magazine, he joked: “I don’t know why only one of us aged. She won the genetic lottery.”
He adde of Charlize: “She’s somebody I’ve always really rooted for because if you know her, it’s impossible not to root for her. She’s just a formidable woman and a great, great actress.”
Matt also expressed his admiration for Charlize after they were filming The Odyssey in difficult conditions on a windy beach in Morocco revealing the “Seriously tough” actress kept working even though she was in “massive discomfort”.
He told the publication: “She had to do these scenes that were already challenging with a 30- to 40-mile-an-hour wind ripping sand into her eyes.
“She’s just a boss, though. The grips were trying to hold screens over, anything that we could do so that we could shoot. But even with all that stuff, she was in massive discomfort, and you wouldn’t know it from seeing the movie.
“I’ve known her for so long, and she is one of those people who won’t complain, ever. And so, when she finally had to say: ‘I literally – I’m so sorry, I can’t keep my eyes open,’ she was angry.
“I think that was probably tougher on her than anything. And I’m like: ‘Charlize, no human being could keep their eyes open, this is ridiculous. Why didn’t you say something earlier?’ That’s her. She is seriously tough.”
It comes after Charlize recently revealed she hopes her children will eventually give her “props” for her “bada**” movie stunts.
The Hollywood actress is mother to daughters Jackson, 12, and August, nine, and she’s revealed her girls don’t seem to be impressed by her film career but she hopes one day they will be able to look back at her work and feel proud.
She told The Hollywood Reporter: “They’re kids. They’re doing exactly what they’re supposed to do. I don’t think anybody’s kids really feel that way about their parents, no matter what they do. And they’re teenagers now.
“So, even if they were [impressed], they would never show it. But I want to believe that we’ll actually sit down one day when they’re old enough to have a glass of wine, and they’ll say: ‘You know what, Mom? It was pretty bad*** when you were 50 and you were hanging off that helicopter. We never gave you your props’.”
Charlize was referring to a stunt featured in her Netflix film The Old Guard 2 in which she is seen hanging from the side of a helicopter in flight, and the actress admits it was a tough scene to film but it felt very safe.
She added to the publication: “I haven’t spent a lot of time on helicopters; I’m not crazy about them either. It just came out of the creative process and wanting to make that third-act set piece be as big as we all wanted it to be … “
