Matt Damon’s publicist says a report about the actor moving to Australia because he is unhappy with President Donald Trump’s policies is untrue.
The New York Post reported Damon is moving his family, including his wife Luciana Barroso and four children, to Australia and that he bought a home next to friend Chris Hemsworth there. The move was reportedly to get away from Trump’s policies with which the actor disagrees, according to an unnamed source.
Damon rep Jennifer Allen told the Boston Globe, however, that while Damon has visited Australia recently, he has not bought a house there and is not planning a move.
“Matt has visited Australia several times recently,” Allen said, “but he has not bought a house there not is he moving there.” Damon currently has homes in Los Angeles and New York and previously lived in Boston.
Damon has been critical of Trump and expressed that he was “nervous” about a Trump presidency before the 2016 election.
“There’s no way we can let this guy be the [president],” he said, the Globe reported. “To let that dude have the nuclear football, are you kidding me? He’s impulsive and rash, and doesn’t seem to think deeply about too many things.”
Damon also called Trump’s comments blaming “both sides” — Antifa and white nationalists — for a clash in Charlottesville, Virginia “absolutely abhorrent,” the Globe reported.
The actor recently suffered backlash for comments he made that the Me Too movement should be viewed and judged on a “spectrum of behavior.” He later apologized for the remark.
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