Matt Damon turned his movie premiere in the Big Apple into a family event!
On Wednesday, the 53-year-old actor attended the Apple TV+ premiere of his film, The Instigatorsat Lincoln Center in New York City. He wore a khaki suit, crisp white T-shirt and white sneakers for the red carpet outing.
While the event celebrated his new action comedy, the spotlight was on the women in tow — his wife, Luciana Barroso, and their four daughters. Luciana, 47, wowed in a white dress and black heels. The couple’s daughters — Isabella, 16, Stella, 13, and Gia, 14 — were also dressed to the nines for their dad’s big night. Damon is also stepfather to Barroso’s daughter, Alexia, 24, who he met when she was 4. Barroso, who met Damon when he was filming Stuck on you and married in December 2005, having welcomed Alexia into the family from a previous relationship.
Damon spoke to ET’s Rachel Smith at the premiere, and he talked about how time flies when you’re a parent.
“I know, it happens so fast,” he said of the young women at his side.
He added: “It happens kind of slowly and then really quickly, in a beautiful way.”
In 2011, Damon opened up to Stop about being an extra father to Alexia.
“I jumped right in with Lucy. I mean, Alexia was already 4. I was an extra dad,” he told the outlet. “The only way I can describe it — it sounds stupid, but — at the end of the day How the Grinch Stole ChristmasYou know how his heart grows, like, five times its size? Everything is full; it’s full all the time.”
It was a big night for Damon, who stars alongside Casey Affleck in the new action film, which follows hard-working father Rory (Damon) and ex-con Cobby (Affleck), who team up to steal from a corrupt politician. The job goes awry, however, and as the duo are pursued by police, bureaucrats and crime bosses, they enlist the help of Rory’s therapist (Hong Chau) to evade capture.
In addition to Damon and Affleck, the Doug Liman-directed film — which was written by Chuck MacLean and Affleck — also stars Michael Stuhlbarg, Paul Walter Hauser, Ving Rhames, Alfred Molina and Toby Jones, with Jack Harlow and Ron Perlman.
NFL Legend Rob Gronkowski also makes a cameo appearance and was Affleck’s first choice for the as-yet-unnamed role.
“Devin Walsh, our producer, called him and brought him here,” Affleck previously said. told ET“He really thought he would participate more.”
“He was just there for, you know, a while,” Affleck added. “Everybody loves (Gronk).”
The Instigators opens in select theaters on August 2 and arrives on Apple TV+ on August 9.
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