Matt Damon's Tackling Film Roles While Grips With Fatherhood

Matt Damon may still look like the maths genius Good Will Hunting, but the fresh-faced actor is now 35, a husband, a stepdad and he's just getting used to the demands of having a new baby daughter. And while Matt stars in two challenging adult film roles this autumn - as a Boston cop in Martin Scorsese's The Departed, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson, and as a CIA agent in the Robert De Niro-directed The Good Shepherd with Angelina Jolie - it's his off-screen role as a new father that is uppermost in the actor's mind. Matt's wife Luciana Barroso gave birth to their daughter Isabella back in June, and the actor revealed they had named her long before they discovered the sex of the baby. "We had been calling her Isabella for months," Matt confirms. But while he is enjoying parenthood, the Boston star admits he has a steep learning curve ahead of him. He said: "I have always longed for kids. Now I just have to learn how to be a disciplinarian.  "I'm good at winding kids up, but I'm not so good at chilling them out." If he needs some tips, he need look no further than his Good Will Hunting friend Ben Affleck, now married with a child of his own to Alias star Jennifer Garner.  Full story here