{"id":746381,"date":"2026-06-19T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746381\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:21:10","slug":"matt-damon-gets-into-a-giant-trojan-horse-for-kimmel-skit-to-promote-the-odyssey-just-jared-celebrity-news-and-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746381\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon Gets Into a Giant Trojan Horse for &#8216;Kimmel&#8217; Skit to Promote &#8216;The Odyssey&#8217; &#8211; Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News and Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"788\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/matt-damon-trojan-horse-jimmy-kimmel-788x444.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Matt Damon gets in a giant trojan horse for Jimmy Kimmel Live skit\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   loading=\"eager\"\/>Credit: Backgrid\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/matt-damon\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Damon<\/a>\u2018s \u201cfeud\u201d with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jimmy-kimmel\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> is one of the longest-running jokes, dating all the way back to 2005. And it looks like there\u2019s going to be a new update tonight!<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old actor was just spotted getting into a giant trojan horse outside of the Jimmy Kimmel Live studio on Thursday (June 18) in Hollywood. <\/p>\n<p>Matt is promoting his new movie The Odyssey and it looks like he\u2019s planning on using the trojan horse to gain access to the studio. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/matt-damon-trojan-horse-jimmy-kimmel-01.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"1103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/matt-damon-trojan-horse-jimmy-kimmel-01-788x1103.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2232184\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cfeud\u201d between the longtime friends began in 2005 when Kimmel jokingly apologized to Damon for running out of time at the end of an episode, which became a recurring bit. Over the past 20 years, they\u2019ve continued to prank each other as part of the running bit. <\/p>\n<p>While Matt is not a scheduled guest for the June 18 episode, it looks like there might be a skit airing on the show. Or it might be kept for a future episode!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/matt-damon-trojan-horse-jimmy-kimmel-04.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"1181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/matt-damon-trojan-horse-jimmy-kimmel-04-788x1181.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2232185\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Odyssey\u00a0chronicles \u201cthe ten-year journey of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, back to his home after the fall of Troy,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/1381.The_Odyssey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoodReads<\/a>. Homer wrote it around the 8th or 7th century BC.<\/p>\n<p>The film has a massive, star-studded cast including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/tom-holland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Holland<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/anne-hathaway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Hathaway<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/robert-pattinson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Pattinson<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/lupita-nyongo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lupita Nyong\u2019o<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/zendaya\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zendaya<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/charlize-theron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlize Theron<\/a>. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/19\/the-odyssey-full-cast-list-28-actors-confirmed-for-christopher-nolans-next-movie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the cast list<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/matt-damon-trojan-horse-jimmy-kimmel-02.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1180\" height=\"787\" data-id=\"2232186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/matt-damon-trojan-horse-jimmy-kimmel-02-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2232186\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/matt-damon-trojan-horse-jimmy-kimmel-03.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1180\" height=\"1769\" data-id=\"2232187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/matt-damon-trojan-horse-jimmy-kimmel-03-1180x1769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2232187\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/matt-damon\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Damon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/the-odyssey\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Odyssey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Backgrid Matt Damon\u2018s \u201cfeud\u201d with Jimmy Kimmel is one of the longest-running jokes, dating all the way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-746381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}