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Matt Damon: man of the people

Nobody does the everyman better than Matt Damon. His common touch has made him one of the world’s most bankable stars. He tells Tim Lewis about offending Barack Obama, his love for Ben Affleck and marrying outside the Hollywood elite

Photos: ’Politically I vote against my own self-interest at every election’: Matt Damon. Photograph: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP | ‘My wife’s a civilian and that takes a lot of pressure off’: with Luciana. They met in Miami in 2003. Photograph: MCMULLAN CO/SIPA/Rex Features | Friends indeed: with Ben Affleck in Good Will Hunting. Photograph: Allstar/Miramax/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar