Hollywood star Matt Damon has revealed that he would consider moving to Ireland.
Having famously lived in Dalkey during the first coronavirus lockdown last year, he became a regular sighting among locals.
He rented a house in the seaside town for four months after filming of his movie The Last Duel was shut down due to the pandemic.
Speaking on the WTF podcast with Marc Maron, the 50-year-old said: “When we did the lockdown, we started the lockdown in Ireland because we were shooting a movie. It was so f*****g great.
“We loved it there so much and I was kind of in the back of my head, ‘I could move here. I could live here.’ It’s beautiful.”
Matt reiterated his love for Dalkey, his adopted home.
He said: “It’s about 45 minutes outside Dublin, it’s this beautiful seaside town.
“I got very lucky. We were shooting this movie that’s going to come out later in the year called the Last Duel and half of it we shot in France and half in Ireland.
“We just eeked out the French part of our schedule, we finished that and then the crew travelled to Ireland. Landed in Ireland and shut down.
“We stayed for three months. Because we got there and we’d rented all of these houses in this town, it was about a 15-minute drive to the studio.
“So everybody, the actors and director Ridley Scott, rented a place.”
“Everybody left. We had a few people in our little group and we were like, ‘well we’ve got all these houses for three months’ so we just moved into these houses and just kind of took it over and had just the best time.”
