Matt Damon ditches his usual clean-cut appearance for latest movie role

Matt Damon has stepped out looking unlike his usual clean-cut movie star self, attending an event on the weekend with a very different look.

Matt Damon looked unlike the clean-cut movie star we’ve all come to know and love at an event over the weekend.

The actor headlined the Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event rocking a head full of grey hair and an unruly beard to match.

The 54-year-old attended the global fan event at The Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, with his best friend and longtime collaborator Ben Affleck, with both giving fans a first look at their upcoming crime-thriller, The Rip.

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck attend the Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event at The Kia Forum in California. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Damon rocked a full grey beard to the event held over the weekend. Picture: Michael Tran / AFP

However, before sharing a teaser for their new cop drama set to drop on Netflix in January 2026, Affleck roasted Damon’s beard.

“I trusted Matt would shave the beard before Tudum — and here we are,” the 52-year-old actor said on stage alongside their co-stars Teyana Taylor and Sasha Calle.

Affleck roasted Damon’s beard onstage with The Rip co-star Teyana Taylor. Picture: Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Netflix

Damon is currently on a break in filming the Christopher Nolan-directed, fantasy film The Odyssey in Italy. In the movie, Damon plays Ancient Greek mythological hero Odysseus, which explains the beard.

The blockbuster will also star Zendaya and her fiance Tom Holland, as well as A-listers Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o and Charlize Theron.

Damon, seen here in 2023, usually presents a clean-cut appearance. Picture: Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images

The actor looking dapper with wife Luciana at the 2024 Met Gala. Picture: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

Filming has been underway since February with the star-studded cast shooting in various locations in Scotland, Ireland, Morocco, Greece and Favignana, situated west of the coast of Sicily.

Last month, Damon was photographed in Favignana rocking a ripped physique on a yacht as he enjoyed some time off from filming the blockbuster.

Damon enjoyed a boat trip around Favignana, Italy, with family and friends on April 12 during a break in filming The Odyssey. Picture: MEDIA-MODE.COM

Damon filming scenes for The Odyssey on location in Favignana. Picture: CIAOPIX/COBRA TEAM / BACKGRID

As the pics went viral, Affleck joked at the time that he couldn’t go anywhere without being asked about Damon’s chiselled abs, especially while at the premiere of his new film The Accountant 2.

“God damn! I just went to the premiere and every interviewer, they were like they found the secret of life,” Affleck recalled on Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast on April 30, adding that reporters at screenings wouldn’t stop showing him photos of Damon’s six-pack.

“I was like, ‘The one time he got in shape!’”

Damon and Affleck on the set of their upcoming Netflix movie The Rip. Picture: Netflix

But Affleck also praised his best mate for the transformation.

“It looks good,” he added. “It ain’t easy when you touch 50. You boys will see!”

Damon and Affleck’s upcoming film The Rip follows a group of Miami cops whose bond unravels after they discover millions in cash in a derelict stash house.

As outside forces learn about their pricey discovery, no on can be trusted and they begin to turn on each other.

“This movie takes a look at the things people will do for money,” Affleck said at the Netflix event.

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