Matt Damon clarifies he never used ‘F-slur’ in personal life after backlash on social media : Bollywood News – Bollywood Hungama

August 4, 2021

Hollywood actor Matt Damon is receiving backlash from a current interview for his assertion of never utilizing the F-slur. In the current article posted by the U.Okay.’s Sunday Times, the actor said he stopped utilizing the offensive time period when his daughter made him perceive how that phrase is offensive and harmful and stopped utilizing the identical “months ago”. “The word that my daughter calls the ‘f-slur for a homosexual’ was commonly used when I was a kid, with a different application,” he advised the newspaper in an interview. “I made a joke, months ago, and got a treatise from my daughter. She left the table. I said, ‘Come on, that’s a joke! I say it in the movie ‘Stuck on You’!’ She went to her room and wrote a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous. I said, ‘I retire the f-slur!’ I understood.”

After he obtained immense backlash, opposite to the earlier interview, he advised Variety that he has “never” used the phrase in his “personal life” and doesn’t use any slurs. He additionally stated that he understands why his interview obtained backlash.

Damon gave a press release associated to his current interview the place he recalled the dialogue he had along with his daughter the place I tried to contextualize for her the progress that has been made although not at all accomplished. “I defined that that phrase was used always and casually and was even a line of dialogue in a film of mine as not too long ago as 2003, she in flip expressed incredulity that there may ever have been a time the place that phrase was used unthinkingly,” he added. He also confirmed that she and his daughter takes extreme pride in being an LGBTQ+ community ally.

“I have never called anyone ‘f****t’ in my personal life and this conversation with my daughter was not a personal awakening. I do not use slurs of any kind,” Damon continued.

“I have learned that eradicating prejudice requires active movement toward justice rather than finding passive comfort in imagining myself ‘one of the good guys’. I also shared understand why my statement led many to assume the worst and is trying to clear about his statement since the interview is out,” he added.