Matt Damon Clarifies Controversial Comments On Gay Actors

Ugh, Matttttt. I've always liked Ben better, for the record. Even when he was putting his penis in J Lo. Yesterday Matt Damon appeared on Ellen to pimp out his new flick The Martian, and took the opportunity to address his previous what the fuck comments regarding gay actors. In case you missed it, the actor told The Guardian: 

“I think you’re a better actor the less people know about you, period. And sexuality is a huge part of that. Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anything about your sexuality because that’s one of the mysteries that you should be able to play.”

How mysterious. As most of the world noticed, the article mentions his wife, includes a picture of him and his wife (which he willingly posed for on a red carpet in front of photographers), and the openly heterosexual actor said: 

“You know, a guy who’s married happily with four kids is not quite a story.” 

Obviously gays, straights, children, and even small house pets noticed the discrepancy in his thought process. The first wave of commenters attacked Matt for being a privileged, white, straight dum dum who knows nothing about coming out, and the second wave of commenters told the first wave of commenters to eat a dick, and that Matt is progressively addressing that societal hierarchy of sexuality by saying the matter of peen vs vag is so mute it doesn't deserve mentioning. I THINK he hates his The Martian co-star Jessica Chastain and is trying to sabotage the movie by distracting audiences with his heterosexuality. No mystery, no movie! 

After the controversy, Matt let out some clarifying (but not really) hot air on Ellen:

I was talking about actors are more effective when you know less about their personal lives. And was talking about it in the context of when Ben and I first started and people wrote all these articles, when Good Will Hunting came out, that we were gay because it was two guys who wrote the script. And feeling like, oh, well we can’t even like… then you have to address it and then it’s like well I’m not gonna throw my friends under the bus, who are gay, and act like it’s some kind of a disease. How do you even address it? 

But in this day and age I said this thing to The Guardian and it got turned into – and I was just trying to say actors are more effective when they’re a mystery. Right? And somebody picked it up and said I said gay actors should get back in the closet. Which is like I mean, it’s stupid, but it is painful when things get said that you don’t believe. You know what I mean? And then it gets represented that that’s what you believe. In the blogosphere there’s no real penalty for just taking the ball and running with it. Ya know what I mean? You’re just trying to click on your thing. So, uh….