the improbable and romantic story of his meeting with his wife

In addition to shining again thanks to his role in Downsizinga film released in theaters in 2018 and recently added to the Netflix catalog, Matt Damon celebrates his 52nd birthday on October 8, 2022. An event that he will certainly share with his wife, Luciana Barroso. Married since 2015, the couple is living proof that not all romantic relationships started in Hollywood are doomed. With Ellen DeGerenes, the actor confided in the surprising meeting with his wife. He was doing comedy Stuck On You, whose filming originally based in Hawaii had been moved to Miami. One evening, his colleagues invited him to have a beer in a bar.

The actor says he immediately noticed Luciana Barroso in the middle of the crowd. While this may sound romanticized, he says that’s really how things happened. Today, Matt Damon can only thank the production for changing his plans, because it was thanks to this change that he was able to meet the woman of his life, formerly a bartender. For her part, she had revealed more details about their meeting with vogue and his version of the facts is slightly different from that of her husband.

Luciana Barroso and Matt Damon: how to forget this romantic meeting?

Luciana Barroso was a bartender when Matt Damon walked into the bar. She says that to avoid the crowds and the requests for autographs, he had taken refuge behind his bar : “He came to hide behind my bar, just wanting to stand there and have a drink. He was like, ‘oh, I saw you and I really wanted to talk to you.’” Curiously, the latter was not very interested in his proposal and therefore offered to work with her on the preparation of cocktails if he really wanted to stay behind the bar. Matt Damon, who had already undergone training in the field, as part of a shoot, accept and get to workmuch to the delight of her boss.

“Besides, he made me a ton of money in tips that night”, added Luciana Barroso. If either couldn’t deny their connection, the bartender had fear of being rejected because of family situation : she was already the mother of a four-year-old girl. On the contrary, Matt Damon loved the strength of this woman capable of raising a child on her own: “He said to me, ‘I love the fact that you’re a mom and that’s your priority.’ Some guys could have been different, they could have run away thinking it’s complicated, but for him it wasn’t.