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THR’s Stephen Galloway recently spoke with Matt Damon, and they discussed Damon’s upcoming films 'Suburbicon' and 'Downsizing,' his long friendship with George Clooney, his disdain for President Trump and his outrage about Charlottesville.

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00:00Son, there's something I have to tell you.

00:03The Hollywood Reporter Stephen Galloway spoke with Matt Damon, and they discussed quite a bit,

00:08including Damon's upcoming film, Suburbicon and Downsizing, his desire to direct,

00:14his long-standing friendship with George Clooney, his disdain for President Trump,

00:18and his outrage about Charlottesville.

00:21Suburbicon, which premieres September 2 at the Venice Film Festival, is a dark drama

00:25which tells two stories, one about a seemingly regular family that turns out to be deeply

00:31troubled, the other about a black family that comes under fire when it moves into an

00:36apparently idyllic white suburb. Damon very nearly didn't appear in Suburbicon at all,

00:40having worked for two solid years. He yearned to spend time with his family, but the film's

00:45director, George Clooney, then offered to move the production to L.A.

00:49Suburbicon's last monologue was shot the week of the election amidst the shock of Trump's victory,

00:54and the film's already dark premise has become even more poignant in the wake of the

00:59Charlottesville protests.

01:00A lot of people, myself included, are really waking up to the extent of the existing racism,

01:05and it's so much worse than I naively thought.

01:08I just feel naive at this point. It was shocking to see those kids.

01:11I thought, those people are a lot younger than me. Who raised them?

01:16Damon explains that he naively thought everything was getting better with each generation,

01:20and found Trump's many sides comment to be absolutely abhorrent.

01:26According to Damon,

01:27I thought Jimmy Kimmel's line was the best when he said that Trump said they were fine

01:31people on both sides and showed the clip of the guys screaming,

01:35Jews will not replace us, and cut back to Jimmy saying,

01:38Let's get something straight.

01:40If you're with a group of people chanting, Jews will not replace us,

01:44and you don't immediately leave that group, you are not a fine person.

01:48When asked if living in Los Angeles and being successful isolated him from the rest of the country,

01:53Damon replies that he isn't the right person to ask because he is isolated like a lot of actors.

01:58But in California, New York, the Northeast, he says,

02:01To read Stephen Galloway's full interview with Matt Damon,

02:12which covers his thoughts on the future of film,

02:14his memories of meeting George Clooney for the first time,

02:17the movie he saw recently that he really loved,

02:20and much more, head to THR.com.

02:22And in the meantime, what do you think of Damon's Trump and Charlottesville take?

02:26Will you be seeing Suburbicon?

02:28Let me know in the comments section.

02:30For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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