{"id":676092,"date":"2026-11-05T21:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T21:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/676092\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T21:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T21:06:08","slug":"matt-damons-wife-had-brain-aneurysm-surgery-before-the-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/676092\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon’s Wife Had Brain Aneurysm Surgery Before the Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMatt Damon<\/a> revealed in a new GQ magazine cover story<\/a> that his wife, Luciana, suffered a brain aneurysm in early 2024 and went into surgery just one week before the 96th Academy Awards, where the Damon-starring \u201cOppenheimer<\/a>\u201d swept the night with Oscars for best picture, director (Christopher Nolan), actor (Cillian Murphy), supporting actor (Robert Downey Jr.) and more. The couple skipped the ceremony as a result but did hit the town for an after party, mainly because Damon\u2019s wife felt guilty about skipping the Oscars years prior when \u201cThe Departed\u201d won best picture and more.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI remember I was shooting second unit for \u2018The Bourne Ultimatum\u2019 during that Oscars [where \u2018The Departed\u2019 won], so I didn\u2019t go,\u201d Damon said. \u201cI was living in Miami at the time, and I had an infant. [My wife] Lucy and I were laying in bed watching it and so nervous for Marty. And then when he won, I was jumping up and down in the bedroom and I remember being really excited. And then the next category was best picture, and \u2018The Departed\u2019 won. And I realized in that moment I hadn\u2019t even considered that that could happen. And I turned to Lucy and I was like, \u2018Shit, we should be there!\u2019 And then the next few weeks, I got all these calls from all the cast and the studio, like, \u2018Hey, where were you, man?\u2019 I totally blew it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe next time that that happened was on \u2018Oppenheimer\u2019 and we had this whole scary thing happen where my wife had a brain aneurysm,\u201d the actor continued. \u201cShe\u2019s totally fine, thank God, but [she] had this brain surgery the week before the Oscars. But it was the first night she felt good enough to get up and had her energy back. And she surprised me and got a dress and we went out to the after-party, because she remembered that the last time it happened, I didn\u2019t do it. And she was like, \u2018This time we\u2019re going out.\u2019 And it was pretty fucking heroic of her to do that and really meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile \u201cThe Departed\u201d and \u201cOppenheimer\u201d won big on Oscars night, Damon was not nominated for supporting actor for either picture. But he doesn\u2019t mind the snubs. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s not something you can control. You got to just do the work, and that\u2019s got to be the reward,\u201d Damon told GQ.<\/a> \u201cBecause it\u2019s like, then if you don\u2019t win, do you feel bad about something that was really positive? Don\u2019t turn this into something bad. It\u2019s a tricky one. I always think about old movies when I look at them and it says, \u2018So-and-so won an Oscar, so-and-so didn\u2019t.\u2019 You\u2019re judging it in a totally different way. It\u2019s not attached to that anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDamon added, \u201cThe real way they should do them, really, is 20 or 25 years later. You\u2019ll have a really good idea of which movies really endured and really still matter to you. There can be hype in the moment, or it can be a zeitgeist thing, but it doesn\u2019t hold up. The goal for me is to make as many of those movies that are around 20 years later. That\u2019s a cool thing. People come up [to me] about \u2018Good Will Hunting\u2019 and I realize they weren\u2019t born when the movie came out. It\u2019s just very cool for Ben and me to have a new generation of people actually see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEven if awards don\u2019t ultimately matter, Damon will be back in the throes of awards season with Christopher Nolan\u2019s record-breaking blockbuster \u201cThe Odyssey<\/a>.\u201d Damon is widely expected to land a nomination for best actor and some view him as the frontrunner to win. The same goes for Nolan for best director and the movie for best picture.<\/p>\n

\n\tRead Damon\u2019s full GQ cover story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Damon revealed in a new GQ magazine cover story that his wife, Luciana, suffered a brain aneurysm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,98032,104997,83194],"class_list":["post-676092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-matt-damon","tag-oppenheimer","tag-the-odyssey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}