Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso 15 years together

Call it destiny or an intuitive feeling, but finding “your” person largely depends on something completely unpredictable. What are the chances that you accidentally bump into a beautiful stranger, fall in love with her at first sight, marry her, and you will have a wonderful marriage? Chances are slim, but that’s exactly what happened in the life of actor Matt Damon.

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Love at first sight through the eyes of Matt

Damon met Argentinean Luciana Barroso according to all the laws of the Hollywood genre – that is, as in real life, it would seem, does not happen. After signing for the role in the comedy “Stuck in You” in 2003, Matt Damon went to Miami to shoot.

“We had to shoot in Hawaii, and then for some reason we moved to Miami. In Miami at that time I had never hung out, ”the actor recalled.

One evening, the film crew went to a bar and persuaded Damon to join the party, even though he was reluctant to go. And it was in that very institution that Luciana Barroso worked as a bartender.

“I immediately saw Luciana at the bar, across the whole room,” admitted actor Ellen DeGeneres on her show in 2011, “Eight years and four children, now this is my life. I don’t know how else our paths might have crossed if it hadn’t been for that evening in Miami. Fate allowed me to hit the jackpot in the form of a wife “…

Before meeting Luciana, Matt was sure that true love was not for him:

“I remember thinking when I was in my early 30s that I would never get married. My brother found his soul mate young – he was only 26 years old when he got married. By the time I met my future wife, my brother had been married for 10 years, and I looked at him and his marriage with envy, confident that such happiness was not for me. And then everything in my life turned upside down. “

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Love at first sight through the eyes of Luciana

His wife also has a version of what happened that evening when they met, and what convinced her that this was “her” man:

“Matt recalls that he saw me on the other side of the room and I was lit by the lights. Of course it was a nightclub – there were lights everywhere! “

But seriously, Luciana described it this way:

“People started to recognize him and ask for photos and autographs, and then such public attention became aggressive, so Matt came and hid behind the bar, wanting to chat with me.”

Luciana made Matt work with her and be a little bartender:

“And he made me a bunch of tips that night because of course everyone wanted to come over to him. So it turned into a really fun night out, and for us personally, it has been going on for over 15 years. “

Luciana at that time was a single mother, and she raised her four-year-old daughter Alexia. When Matt found out about her daughter, he was even more impressed. As Luciana recalls:

“We immediately got in touch, it was easy and comfortable for us to talk to each other, and by the end of the evening he invited me to take a walk with his friends. I refused because my daughter was expecting me. Matt loved that my priority was the child. And I liked his responsibility. That he was a movie star didn’t really matter. It was just Matt, he is just Matt to me now. “

“Easy and fun”

Damon proposed to Luciana in September 2005, and in December of that year they got married in a modest and private ceremony. She was then already pregnant with their first daughter, and then gave birth to Matt two more girls.

The couple now have four daughters: Alexia, Isabella, Gia and Stella. Luciana was with Matt when he became depressed and wanted to leave Hollywood after his father’s death in 2017. In 2018, the couple moved to the Australian city of Byron Bay to help Damon recover mentally and emotionally.

When asked what the secret of their long marriage was, Luciana replied:

“I have no idea! We’re just lucky to have met each other, but we don’t take it for granted. It’s just life and marriage, so we have our ups and downs too, but overall it’s easy and fun. “