Damon: 'Boring' alter ego kept media interest low

Matt Damon invented an alter ego so he could keep his life private.

The 40-year-old actor – who has four-year-old Isabella, two-year-old Gia, and three-month old Stella with wife Luisiana, as well as raising her 11-year-old daughter Alexia from a previous marriage – was advised by then-girlfriend Minnie Driver to make people think he was bland and quiet when he first shot to fame, in a bid to reduce interest in him.