Matt Damon poses for selfie with Aussie fan while shopping at Kmart
KMART is a place where you can find just about anything, but one lucky shopper stumbled across an unexpected find — Hollywood star Matt Damon.
KMART is a place where you can find just about anything, but one lucky shopper stumbled across an unexpected find at the popular store — a Hollywood star.
Shopper Krystla McIntosh and her daughter Taylah were shopping the Ballina store, reports The Northern Star, when they came across movie star Matt Damon in the aisles.
Naturally they did what anyone would do — asked for a selfie.
The 47-year-old Good Will Hunting star happily posed for a picture with Taylor, 10, while holding a couple of stuffed toys in his hand.
The snap was then shared on the balna.nsw Instagram account, along with the caption “Kmart is where you get the best Matt Damon’s from”.
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According the balna.nsw post, the original pic was posted by Matty Mimnaw.
The Daily Mail reports that Ms McIntosh spotted Damon in the carpark before seeing him in the store and that it was Damon’s wife, Luciana Barroso, who heard Taylah request and got him to pose with her.
Damon has been spotted in Australia on a number of occasions recently, as he and his family spent Easter in Byron Bay with Aussie star Chris Hemsworth’s brood.
The Bourne star also had a beer and posed for a photo with Queensland local Tyler Boyce in Double Island Point near Noosa last month and also attended Byron Bay Bluesfest.
“Me and the boys thought it would be rude if we didn’t pop by to say hey and sink a few tinnies,” Mr Boyce told The Courier Mail.
“To our surprise he was keen to chat and have a beer with us for a while, talking about how lucky we are to live here.”
MATT DAMON ‘IS MOVING TO AUSTRALIA’
Damon could be moving his family to Australia — in part because the star is fed up with US President Donald Trump.
According to reports, Damon, 47, has purchased a property in Byron Bay, next door to good mate Chris Hemsworth’s luxurious beachside digs. (The two pals recently appeared together in Thor: Ragnarok.)
But the New York Post said that Damon might be spending a bit more time on our shores than anticipated.
A source told the New York Post that the actor has political reasons for staying out of the US.
“Matt’s telling friends and colleagues in Hollywood that he’s moving the family to Australia” because the activist actor disagrees with Mr Trump’s policies. The President has frequently butted heads with Hollywood A-listers including Meryl Streep.
The source added, “Matt’s saying the move will not impact his work — as he will travel to wherever his projects are shooting. He’s also telling friends he wants to have a safe place to raise his kids.” Damon has four children with wife Luciana Barroso.
Perhaps Damon’s also allowing some of the controversy to die down after he had to publicly apologise for insensitive comments he made about the wave of sexual assault allegations shaking Hollywood.
He said that the #MeToo allegations should be judged on a “spectrum of behaviour”.
But later said, “I really wish I’d listened a lot more before I weighed in on this. Ultimately, what it is for me is that I don’t want to further anybody’s pain with anything that I do or say. And so for that I’m really sorry.”
Damon and close friend Ben Affleck‘s production company this week said it would adopt “inclusion riders” in stars’ contracts, after Frances McDormand spurred the trend from the stage at the Oscars.
Either way, it looks like Damon’s cleared his schedule for the big move to Australia. He’s producing a film version of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution for Affleck, 45, to star in — but besides a cameo in the upcoming Ocean’s 8 that’s wrapped, Damon has no major projects lined up as an actor.
His last film, Downsizing, was a critical and financial disappointment.
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