The Bourne Isolation: Matt Damon hangs out with locals as he spends lockdown in Irish town

The Hollywood star was filming The Last Duel in Dublin when lockdown measures kicked in
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Matt Damon is self-isolating in the small Irish town of Dalkey after being stranded in the country due to the coronavirus lockdown.

The Hollywood star flew into Dublin last month to film scenes for his next movie The Last Duel, which is directed by Ridley Scott, but was trapped in the country when President Donald Trump banned flights between Europe and the United States.

Damon, 49, has been staying in Dalkey, a seaside suburb of Dublin, ever since, accompanied by his wife Luciana Barroso and their four children.

Delighted locals have shared snaps of the actor out and about in the town on social media.

Photos taken before social distancing measures kicked in showed Damon happily posing alongside residents and heading out to local restaurants.

More recent tweets stated that the star had been spotted jogging around the town and going swimming off the coast, keeping his clothes in a bag from Irish grocery shop SuperValu IRL.

A photo of Damon wearing a hoodie and a baseball cap with a carrier bag in hand was widely shared on Twitter, with many social media users joking that he “has gone native” and fits right in.

“Matt Damon being stuck here in Dublin & looking like he’s lived here all his life is the weirdest thing to come out of lockdown,” one Twitter user suggested, while another joked that the “collab” between Damon and SuperValu was “the content I didn’t know I needed and god knows never expected.”

Others speculated that the carrier bag might actually be “a big bag of cans for the lads” rather than a change of clothes...

Last month, Mary Caviston, a waitress at Dalkey’s Corner Note Cafe, told the Irish Mail on Sunday that she had been “surprised” to see Damon during her work shift, “just two days before we went into lockdown.”

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“He was there with his wife and his beautiful children, there were six of them in total,” she said.

“He was the last in and he was wearing a baseball cap, and I did catch the American accent but other than that he was just like any other customer.

“He had a beautiful family. They were all impeccably mannered, so polite, unassuming, just really lovely people.”

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Damon’s film The Last Duel also stars his close friend Ben Affleck as well as Adam Driver and Jodie Comer.

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