Matt Damon’s meet-cute with wife Luciana Barroso reads like a rom-com. The actor was shooting 2003’s “Stuck On You” in Miami, Florida, when, one night, he and the crew hit up a bar in South Beach. Barroso was employed as a bartender, and when fans began swarming Damon for photos and autographs, he hid behind her bar. Recalling the evening to Vogue, she shared, “He says, ‘Oh I saw you and I really wanted to talk to you.'” Rather than being starstruck, she didn’t totally appreciate his appearance at her workspace. “I put him to work with me,” she laughed. “I said, ‘You know, if you’re going to be back here, you can’t just be standing there!'” Damon obliged and began mixing drinks alongside her. “It turned into a really fun night and then 15 years later here we are!” she mused.
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Before that, though, there was one important test he had to ace. Barroso was a single mom to then-four-year-old daughter Alexia Barroso, so when Damon invited her to keep partying, she declined. “He said, ‘I love that you’re a mom and that’s your priority,'” Barroso told the mag. “Some guys might have been different, they might think it’s complicated, but for him it wasn’t.” Indeed, Damon told Hello! Canada (via People), “It was just the way it was, and I was happy for that.” Since then, he’s embraced the role of stepdad, teaching Alexia to drive and even giving her a cameo in 2009’s “We Bought a Zoo.”
