Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Are Nearly Empty Nesters

Angelina Jolie will quickly have firm within the empty subsequent membership. As soon as fresh-faced younger males intent on conquering Hollywood collectively, mates and collaborators Matt Damon and Ben Affleck at the moment are solidly middle-aged—and are dealing with a house life free of youngsters, a prospect that makes them emotional, Damon says.

The friendship between Affleck and Damon extends to their respective youngsters, with each households vacationing collectively and sharing social occasions. Married for over 20 years to Luciana Barroso, Matt Damon’s brood contains Luciana’s daughter from a earlier relationship, Alexia (now 27), in addition to Isabella (20), Gia (17), and Stella (15).

Now aged 53, Ben Affleck has three kids, all of whom he shares with former spouse Jennifer Garner. Married from 2005 till their divorce was finalized in 2018, the 2 co-parent Violet, now 20, Seraphina, 17, and Samuel, 14.

However time cannot be stopped, and shortly each units of oldsters shall be empty nesters, the 55-year-old Damon admitted to Individuals this week. “We’re at very comparable levels with the children, and it’s positively a brand new part of life,” Damon mentioned. “It doesn’t take a lot to get us emotional at this level.”

“I really feel like we face it and embracing the truth that it’s taking place,” he continued. “We’ve been speaking so much about presence and about actually making an attempt to be within the second, and since you possibly can’t sluggish time down, the one solution to actually do it’s to essentially be there and be in it.”