Inside Matt Damon and Chris Hemsworth’s bromance
Matt Damon and Chris Hemsworth’s bromance runs much deeper than family holidays together and a shared love of AFL, with the famous pair now taking the next step — a potential movie together.
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Matt Damon says he would “absolutely love” to make a movie with Chris Hemsworth and the pair are searching for a joint project.
The Oscar-winning A-lister, whose new movie Ford v Ferrari is released this week, is a close friend of the Thor heart-throb and their families regularly holiday together in Australia and overseas.
“I have looked for stuff and I know he has too,” said Damon.
“He’s such a great guy and he’s a great actor and our families are really close so that would be a dream scenario for me.”
Damon has often brought his wife Luciana Barroso and their four daughters Down Under to Hemsworth’s home base of Byron Bay as well as travelling around the country on what he calls “family adventures”.
“We go on these adventures down there and go camping for stretches of time,” said Damon. “We went to Western Oz with Chris and his family and to be out there in that part of the world, it was just magical. I want to have some of those memories with my kids and want them to have those memories with me as I did with my dad so that’s a priority for us too.”
On one such trip, Damon made a cameo in Hemsworth’s Thor: Ragnarok, playing a pantomime version of Tom Hiddlestone’s Loki in the Taika Waititi directed Marvel hit.
But Damon says he has grander plans for the character and called on the Kiwi director to step up.
“I would basically play an intergalactic community theatre actor, which I think could be one of the great Marvel characters,” Damon joked.
“I’m serious, listen, I think I should be a villain, but he’s a villain only because he failed as an actor and his real dream is just to do community theatre but he’s not quite good enough. I’m telling you, Taika is the man to make it. I will write it with Taika. If you can get him interested, we’ll write it.”
Damon said he’s also desperate to get back to an AFL match, having watched Hemsworth’s beloved Western Bulldogs beat the Swans in a thriller at Marvel Stadium earlier this year and is slowly getting to grips with the local footy code.
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“It’s a great game – I really had a blast – and the level of athleticism is incredibly impressive, I have to say,” he said. “The more I watch it the more I appreciate it and my friends down there were very patient with me explaining all the rules. We had a great night there and it was a lot of fun, I’d love to do that again. It’s like having an interpreter with you right? I had a group of Australians there going ‘OK, here’s what’s happening now’. It’s very confusing for a foreigner but I feel like I was getting the hang of it by the end. Look, a few more games and I’ll be a rabid fan.”
Ford v Ferrari opens on Thursday. Matt Damon feature in Wednesday’s Hit. TV.
Originally published as Inside Matt Damon and Chris Hemsworth’s bromance