Matt Damon reveals he has a secret Instagram account with 76 followers

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Matt Damon has revealed he has a secret Instagram account, as well as the same tattoo as his late co-star Heath Ledger.

In a cover story for GQ, the 50-year-old Silverwater star opened up about his โ€œvery privateโ€ social media accounts, as well as his collection of body art, for the first time.

โ€œI have 76 followers and Iโ€™ve done 40 posts since 2013,โ€ he revealed, noting his last photo was for his daughter Isabellaโ€™s 15th birthday, in which she is holding up two middle fingers. โ€œThatโ€™s what sheโ€™s been doing every time we take a picture of her nowadays.โ€

In the interview, Damon also opened up about his tattoos. He revealed he has his daughters names โ€” Alexia, Isabella, 15, Gia, 13, and Stella, 10 โ€” inked on his right arm, along with another interesting piece inspired by Ledger.

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Damonโ€™s wife, Luciana Barroso, knew the late Aussie actor and decided she and Damon should get inked in 2013 by Ledgerโ€™s tattoo artist, Scott Campbell. Damon decided to get a tattoo identical to one Ledger had.

โ€œ[Barroso] just announced it,โ€ he recalled. โ€œWe were in our apartment in Manhattan, and she was, like, โ€˜Weโ€™re getting tattoos.โ€™ I was, โ€˜Okay.โ€™โ€

โ€œThere is a friend of ours who did all of Heath Ledgerโ€™s tattoos,โ€ Damon added, referring to Campbell. โ€œI told him if I ever got a tattoo, he was my first phone call.โ€

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Damon revealed the โ€œstrange loopy lineโ€ on his upper right arm is the same ink Ledger, who starred alongside Damon in the 2005 fantasy film The Brothers Grimm, had on his own shoulder.

โ€œThatโ€™s something that Heath had on his arm,โ€ Damon explained. โ€œHeath was an incredibly restless, creative person. Like, I talked to the person who did his hair on The Patriot and she said he hated sitting still so much โ€˜that by the time I got the wig on and I set it and everything, and Iโ€™d finished, heโ€™d get up and there would be a sculpture of bobby pins that heโ€™d done.โ€™ He was really sensitive. This stuff just flowed out of him. He was really special.โ€

โ€œI just wanted to get something that Heath had,โ€ Damon explained. โ€œScott showed me his laptop and I said, โ€˜Scott, whatโ€™s that one?โ€™ And he goes โ€˜I have no idea โ€” I think thatโ€™s just some shit that Heath squiggled.โ€™ And I went, โ€˜Thatโ€™s the one I want.โ€™โ€

Barroso got the same tattoo on her foot.

โ€œSo we both have that,โ€ Damon added. โ€œItโ€™s like a little creative little blessing. Itโ€™s like an angel that looks over all these names that are on the arm.โ€

Read โ€œThe Evolution of Matt Damonโ€ by Chris Heath in GQโ€™s October issue and on GQ.com.



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