our first guest uh stars in A New Motion Picture entitled The Good Shepherd which
opens December 22nd here's the lovely The Talented Matt Damon ladies and gentlemen
thank you so much good to have you with us thank you now here's what I know since the
last time you were here and maybe it was a year ago two years ago something like
that about that yeah you now have a baby girl I have a baby girl well congratulations nice going
and and a wife as well and a wife yes who who is the the mother and your wife [Laughter] [Applause]
mother and your wife Oh I thought you said something else oh well uh uh my wife is uh
my wife Lucy she's uh we've been married for well a year actually a year a couple days ago
good for you and uh where where did you guys get married we got married actually at the city hall
here in uh in New York really yeah we uh we uh somebody didn't give a round of applause
civil servants very happy with it uh and but why the city hall I think I know why and it makes
pretty good sense but why did you do it though well we went down we we didn't want anybody to
uh there was this rumor that we were going to get married and and we were afraid that uh it
was right before the holidays last year and we didn't want to have a people hanging out outside
our house and stuff so we just we just kind of nipped it in the bud and got it over with what is
it like who all was there was there a family and friends or nobody uh well we did we had our uh her
daughter my stepdaughter there and uh and actually the mayor was there mayor what's your name
so you had the mayor there is it kind of like your best man or something no
no he just he just happened to be there he works there yeah
oh I see that yeah
that's pretty nice then it was very nice of him to come in it was a beautiful morning
actually we we thought it was going to be not very romantic but it a snowstorm came and uh it was it
was no New York City with a big snowstorm there is nothing better than New York City
it's great I I agree for the first like three hours which is when we got married
and and the little baby how's that going uh beautiful yeah she's she's great she's uh
she's uh I I had been an uncle up until this point so um so I'm learning things which is
good the whole whole different Dynamic isn't it yeah yeah yeah I mean it turns out you can't
when they cry you just give them back you can't do that it's actually your kid you have to you have
to figure it out but it's it's completely it's much better I mean being an uncle is fine you
know and it's a good way to get your feet wet but it's not not the real deal is it absolutely yeah
congratulations and the little girl's name is uh Isabella Isabella Oh what a beautiful name thank
you and your your wife is uh she's from South America is that correct uh well yeah she was
born in Argentina Argentina yeah have you spent much time down there a little bit yeah we have
a whole family down there so uh uh hopefully you know the uh my stepdaughter my daughter will will
be able to learn Spanish and be raised bilingual and yeah because they don't speak any English yeah
do you speak Spanish I'm learning yeah from your wife is teaching you yeah yeah well that's great
no thank you no it's all it's all very nice uh and and our cue card Tony do you speak Spanish right
now do you understand that do you understand he said your wife is from Argentina yeah
that's great
amigo
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sorry about that yeah she seemed completely unprovoked I don't know what to say
I just said I was practicing Spanish with my wife yeah yeah
very odd
now I know I know this one thing about you and I I'm dying to get to this but maybe we have
other things to talk about but I'll just plant the seed now uh Matthew McConaughey you you know him
sure yeah you've worked with him and and you do an impression of him I do do an impression of Matthew
I've known him for years and uh he's a great guy yeah but I I don't I I don't really do Impressions
I just had this one impression just because I hung out with him a little bit right years ago what
kind of guy is he he's horrific he's great he's always sort of like uh let's have a party kind
of guy right well yeah I mean like he probably he has a lot of fun I think he has a lot of fun
which is good I think it's a good that's what life is about for heaven's sakes yeah uh so I'm dying
to hear the impression and and it and it focuses on on a phrase that I I think uh is very apt in
this case to tell people what the circumstance is what the phrase is with Matthew McConaughey
all right well this uh I just noticed that he he doesn't have a shirt on a lot of the time yes
whenever you see him he's always got his shirt on and he's in fantastic shape right right and
uh but but just on the last on Oceans 13 we just I just got in the habit of every day I would go
up to and they're going to save the impression I just want to set it up right now okay but this is
Matthew McConaughey and we all know that whenever you see a picture of the guy anywhere no shirt
yeah right and for good reason I mean he's he's right this is no accident that he's shirtless
I mean I wouldn't think so no I wouldn't think so either okay all right now with
that in mind when we come back we're going to hear a little bit of your impression okay
we'll be right back before we get to Matthew McConaughey tell me about the uh the movie and
it's directed by Robert De Niro yeah yeah uh it's called the Good Shepherd it's coming out
December 22nd and it's it's it's a Loosely uh historically based uh on the formation of the
CIA yeah exactly it follows the whole birth of the intelligence service in America and then
it also follows this guy in his and his home life and Angelina Jolie plays my wife and oh she's hot
foreign
how was that was that good that was great yes
that's interesting though to be I mean we've read
so much and seen so much and probably none of us really know know the truth
of what is happening there but it's it must be hard not to uh be distracted
I mean she's she's yeah she's just absolutely beautiful that's true but she's but she's a
terrific actress I mean that kind of overpowers her beauty believe it or not when you're when
you're right next to her and you're friends with Brad Pitt as well yeah yeah absolutely and they
did would he show up on the sentence yeah he was there uh he you know he he came by a few times
and you'd know they were there because I I you know we were shooting at an Armory in Brooklyn
and every uh every morning I'd go over to work and on the day she worked there were like 50 you know
cameras and all these people they they have to deal with a lot of that stuff yeah they uh people
are fascinated by her yeah by by her and by him and by them together and yeah well you put them
together then you really got something then you got yeah it's like the perfect storm exactly for
the mechanics uh so now Robert De Niro is that a distraction here's a guy who's directing you well
you're distracted by that for heaven's sakes uh a little bit at first yeah uh because I we didn't
really know each other going into it and and uh and I had obviously you know he's Robert sure
so uh but but it just turned out to be you know because it was a very minimal performance that he
was sitting there and watching me that that was that was uh it felt good you know when you have
him as your backstop right yeah that's pretty good you do an impression of Robert De Niro I don't I'm
I'm I don't I tell you I mean with Impressions it's weird like I I it's just my head I have
random people that you know I do okay um it's not I don't even think it's that good I mean I'm just
well from what I know of it it's tremendous and it's going to be the kind of thing where
I'm gonna want as much of it as I can get well I'll tell you honestly once it's I'm not like
one of those rich little guys who can just turn it on it kind of comes but then once he's there he
doesn't leave that's fine that's kind of why I've spent a lot of time here kind of uh comfortably
introducing the topic okay now in fact I'll give you a choice you want to show the clip of the Good
Shepherd now and then do the impression sure let's show the clip of this and you warm up to it okay
uh so the the clip what are we going to see here uh this is the first time that I meet
John tuturo's character oh he's great this guy isn't just true yeah he's great and this is uh
we're in in London during World War II and uh we're working for OSS and he comes in the
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and and anything you need by way of setting this up I mean you first noticed he was he he
you first notice he never had his shirt on right yeah and I I don't know I just
and I used to hang out with them when we were you know broke actors and and uh so
I don't I don't I don't know man right you know but what what I would say was I would go in to
the morning you know every morning on the set of Oceans 13 and to Steven Soderbergh and I'd say
um uh Mr Soderberg uh today's scene I think would be a good opportunity for me to take my shirt off
yeah
that's very strong thank you very good well I'd like to have you down
to Kilgore where I'm from in Texas maybe have a barbecue or something well that's very nice
but I have to take my shirt off to Matthew well if we were down in Austin I'd you know especially
if it's summertime it gets kind of hot so yeah probably get more chicks if we took our shirts
all right all right I'm there that's excellent excellent random congratulations uh Matt Damon
the Good Shepherd December 22nd great pleasure to see you congratulations on the baby okay
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