Matt Damon Told Wife Luciana Barroso He'd Take An Acting Break, But Then Got A Call About 'Oppenheimer'

Matt Damon almost took an acting break.

The 52-year-old actor opened up in a new interview about how he actually promised his wife, Luciana Barroso that he would take a break from acting for a bit but that was before he got an offer from Christopher Nolan about Oppenheimer.

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While talking with Entertainment Weekly, Matt explained that he negotiated the deal while in couples therapy with Luciana.

“This is going to sound made up, but it’s actually true,” he stated. “I had — not to get too personal — negotiated extensively with my wife that I was taking time off. I had been in Interstellar, and then Chris put me on ice for a couple of movies, so I wasn’t in the rotation, but I actually negotiated in couples therapy.”

Matt added that “the one caveat to my taking time off was if Chris Nolan called. This is without knowing whether or not he was working on anything, because he never tells you. He just calls you out of the blue.”

“It was a moment in my household,” he said.

Matt stars as General Leslie Groves, opposite Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, and Robert Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer, out on July 21.