Matt Damon Gets Roasted By Daughter, Gia, For Standing Awkwardly On âThe Ripâ Red Carpet
- - Matt Damon Gets Roasted By Daughter, Gia, For Standing Awkwardly On âThe Ripâ Red Carpet
Kristie Lau-AdamsJanuary 14, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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Matt Damon knows how to put his best foot forward â much to the amusement of his teenage daughter.
A video originally shared by Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday, January 13, captured the moment Damonâs daughter, Gia, 17, mocked her famous dad for posing awkwardly on The Rip premiereâs red carpet in New York City.
âWhy are you standing like this?â Gia, whom Damon, 55, shares with wife, Luciana Barroso, asked her father as she imitated him hunched forward with his arms puffed out to each side. Damon had been posing for photos alongside his costar and fellow The Rip producer Ben Affleck.
The video, shared by a fan via Twitter later that day, showed Damon take his daughterâs remark in his stride, recreating the pose himself before breaking into a huge grin as Gia, her mom, 49, and two of her sisters, Isabella, 19, and Stella, 15, watched the Martian star poke fun at himself. (Damon is also stepfather to Alexia, 25, whom her mother shares with ex-husband Arbello Barroso.)
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The entire Damon family impressed in front of the cameras as they posed together for photos, with Luciana donning a stunning strapless red gown as her mini-me daughters rocked glamorous figure-hugging dresses of their own.
The event saw Affleck, 53, opening up exclusively to Us Weekly about how much he values his decades-long friendship with Damon. âI keep relearning things about Matt that I already knew and I forget them,â Affleck told Us. âHonestly, I am continuously reminded of what a great father he is and what a fabulous actor he is.â
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Netflix
The Rip serves as yet another professional collaboration between the pair. The film follows a group of Miami authorities who discover a stash of millions and begin to question who they can trust. During a joint promotional interview on the Monday, January 12, episode of The Howard Stern Show, Damon revealed that Luciana had watched their 1997 collaboration, Good Will Hunting, before theyâd met and initially thought Affleck was âthe cute one.â
Damon told Stern, 72, that she had admitted it after theyâd been dating for a few months. âI think I met her best friend from high school and it came out that the two of them went and saw Good Will Hunting together and her best friend thought I was the cute one and she thought Ben was the cute one,â Damon recalled.
Affleck and Damon also noted that these days, Luciana often works with them both, with the Argentinian-born star serving as a producer on The Rip and Affleckâs next directorial project, Animals.
As for the other women in Damonâs life, the actor opened up about how he navigates fatherhood during a 2024 interview for SiriusXMâs âRadio Andyâ show. âI wouldnât deign to give anybody advice other than I just try to listen and be helpful,â Damon told host Andy Cohen at the time. âI mean, ultimately, itâs about building self-esteem. You know, 99% of the decisions they make, youâre not gonna be there, right?â
He had previously told The Guardian in 2012 that he knew he was âgoing to loveâ being a father and husband. âPeople who were already parents would tell me: âItâs great!â âItâs wonderful!ââ he told the outlet at the time. âBut I donât think you can really appreciate it until you experience it for yourself. Itâs really quite something.â
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