Matt Damon, the 46-year-old Oscar winner who is set to reprise his role as Jason Bourne, is a fan of what he says is common-sense gun control. But sense, said the actor repeatedly during an interview with an Australian newspaper, is in scant supply.
“You guys did it here in one fell swoop,” said Damon, referring to Australia’s 1996 gun reform following a mass shooting there, “and I wish that could happen in my country, but it’s such a personal issue for people that we cannot talk about it sensibly. We just can’t.”
“I wish we could be sensible like that but I don’t think that’s going to happen in my lifetime,” added Damon, who was in Australia for the premiere of Jason Bourne (his fourth turn as the former CIA assassin with a new conscience). Damon, who has expressed his support for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, didn’t stop his bleak assessment of the future of gun control legislation there.
“I don’t know what needs to happen,” continued Damon. “Obviously mass shootings aren’t going to do it. There have been so many of them at this point. Sandy Hook, when those children were murdered, if that didn’t do it, you know, I just don’t know. Maybe we just need to evolve further before we can have that conversation, I don’t know.”
