Matt Damon says lockdown in Ireland feels like a fairytale, that the country’s taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, is a “badass” and that he worries about returning to the United States because of inadequate testing for coronavirus.
When I first came in, people were saying, ‘Well, Bono lives over there, Enya lives over there’,” said Damon.
Damon called Varadkar “a badass” for returning to medical work during the pandemic.
Local radio station Spin 1038 scooped Irish media by nabbing an interview that must have brought smiles to Ireland’s tourism agency.