Matt Damon detailed his hilarious Met Gala mishap during his Tonight Show appearance this week.
He shared that this year, he decided to attend the star-studded bash because Chris Hemsworth, who is his friend, and Jennifer Lopez, who is married to his best friend Ben Affleck, were hosting. For the event, he and his wife, Luciana, decided to have a “staycation” and get a hotel by the museum.
“We got ready, and we were a block away, so we were like, ‘Well, we’ll just walk over,’” he recalled. “And they were like, ‘No, you can’t walk. You have to arrive by car.’”
He noted that the process of arriving to the Met Gala is structured “like a military precision and you get a slot and you have to show up in that slot.” Damon was given a very early time, between 6:23 to 6:30 p.m. He was told that to leave from his hotel, “the car actually has to go through the park all the way around, through and then back to the other side.”
Damon, wanting to be punctual and have his Met Gala debut go smoothly, decided to leave the hotel at 5 p.m., thinking they would arrive right at 6:20 p.m.
“So we get out, 5 o’clock, and we come out of the hotel. And this cop sees us get in the car and he kind of signals and he’s like, ‘Follow me.’ And he turns his lights on and he gives us a police escort,” explained the actor. “I’m like, ‘This is incredible. We’re getting a police escort.’”
