Matt Damon gets roasted by his daughter for an awkward red carpet pose

Matt Damon he knows how to put his best foot forward, much to the amusement of his teenage daughter.

A video originally shared by Entertainment tonight on Tuesday, Jan. 13, captured the moment Damon’s daughter Gia, 17, teased her famous dad for getting uncomfortable in The Rip red carpet premiere in New York City.

“Why are you like that?” Gia, which Damon, 55, shares with his wife, Luciana Barrosohe asked his father as he imitated him by hunching forward with his arms puffed out at each side. Damon had been posing for pictures next to his partner The Rip producer Ben Affleck.

The videoshared by a fan via Twitter later that day, showed Damon taking his daughter’s comment in stride, recreating the pose himself before breaking into a big smile as his mother Gia, 49, and two of her sisters Isabella, 19, and Stella, 15, looked on martian star mocks himself. (Damon is also the stepfather of Alexia, 25, whom her mother shares with her ex-husband Arbello Barroso.)

The entire Damon family wowed in front of the cameras as they posed for photos together, with Luciana donning a stunning strapless red dress while her mini-me daughters rocked glamorous figure-hugging dresses.

The event saw Affleck, 53, open exclusively a Us Weekly about how much she values ​​her decades-long friendship with Damon. “I keep learning things about Matt that I already knew and I forget,” Affleck said we. “Honestly, I’m constantly reminded of what a great father he is and what a fabulous actor he is.”

The Rip it serves as another professional collaboration between the couple. The film follows a group of Miami authorities who discover a stash of millions and begin to question who they can trust. During a joint promotional interview on the episode of Monday, January 12 of The Howard Stern ShowDamon revealed that Luciana had seen their 1997 collaboration, Goodwill Huntingbefore they met and initially thought Affleck was “the a beautiful.”

Damon told Stern, 72, that she had admitted after dating for a few months. “I think I met her best friend from high school and it turned out that they both went to see Goodwill Hunting together and her best friend thought I was the cute one and she thought Ben was the cute one,” Damon recalled.

Affleck and Damon also noted that Luciana often works with both of them these days, with the Argentine-born star serving as a producer on The Rip and Affleck’s next directorial project, animals.

As for the other women in Damon’s life, the actor opened up about how he navigate parenthood during a 2024 interview for SiriusXM’s “Radio Andy” show. “I wouldn’t deign to give advice to anyone other than just try to listen and be helpful,” Damon told the host. Andy Cohen at that time. “I mean, at the end of the day, it’s about building self-esteem. You know, 99 percent of the decisions they make, you’re not going to be there, right?”

I had said it before the guardian in 2012 that he knew he would “love” being a father and husband. “People who were already parents told me: ‘It’s great!’ ‘It’s wonderful!’” he told the outlet at the time. “But I don’t think you can really appreciate it until you experience it for yourself. It really is something.”