Not too long ago, news that all of his worldly pocessions were destroyed by a malfunctioning sprinkler would have shaken Matt Damon's world. Today, it rolls right off his back thanks to his six month old daughter Isabella. "I got the phone call that literally everything you own in the world is gone," recalls Damon. "Had it happened six months earlier, I would have been a mess. But I was sitting there with Isabella in my arms, and I didn't miss a step. I don't need anything else in the world."
Despite losing some material items in the flood, it does seem that he has everything he wants in life. He has a happy family and a flourishing film career.
Much of his satisfaction comes from his low-key marriage to Lucy a bartender he met in Miami in 2003 while shooting the comedy Stuck on You. The couple quietly wed in a civil ceremony at New York's City Hall last December.
The couple split their time between in Miami, so that Lucy's 8-year-old daughter, Alexia, from a first marriage, can be close to her father and Manhattan. He does hope to permanently relocate closer to his native Boston when the kids are older.
He loves the anonymity Miami give him. "It's never been that bad," he says. "For years I was living (in New York), and nobody bothered me, ever. No one could find me."
In Miami, "it's me and Shakira, basically, down here. We don't get bothered at all."
When the subject of Isabella gets brought up, Damon gushes that she just started rolling over and recently plopped off their bed -- she's fine.
His family has been following him around the world as he shoows The Bourne Ultimatum.
He says, "When you have kids, you have 10 times the amount of luggage. Where you used to have one bag, you now have a bag for the baby's clothes, the stroller, the car seat, the playpen. Just to get out the door, you have 10 bags. It's nuts."
He admits having a difficult period this year when he was seperated from his famly for three weeks while shooting in Morocco.
"With a kid, it's instantly not OK to be away," he says. "There is something terribly wrong if I'm not with my kid. I can see how going on the road can really work, provided that you have a stable base."
He's not perfect however and lacks some housekeeping skills. "He's capable of living in squalor for months at a time," Ben Affleck says. "He's definitely not a perfectionist about putting stuff away around the house. But he's a real artist in that he really cares about acting."
After wrapping the third Bourne next year, Damon plans to shoot another film with Steven Soderbergh and then team up again with friend Affleck.
"I miss working with Ben. It's so much more fun to work with your friends. Ben and I are talking about directing something, something that we'd like, so hopefully that's on the horizon."
There is one thing that would make Damon happier -- the one thing he's missing -- the title of People's Sexiest Man Alive" that pals Affleck, Brad Pitt, and George Clooney have all achieved. He jokes that he would "give it all back for one shot at the crown."
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