Matt Damon surprised a smitten Idina Menzel on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’
It’s pretty obvious the singer has a major crush on Matt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcnkMODvJPk
Singer Idina Menzel, best known for her stage performances in Wicked and Rent and for voicing Queen Elsa in Frozen, stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday to chat about her new self-titled album and her unrequited crush on Matt Damon. Little did she know that Kimmel and the Cambridge native had cooked up a little surprise for her.
Menzel talked about panicking when celebrities like Tom Cruise and Vin Diesel would come to visit backstage after a performance of Wicked because she had to quickly wash off all the green makeup she wore while playing the role of Elphaba, a character based on the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. But more than Cruise, Diesel, or any other male movie star, she held a candle for Damon.
“All my friends in the cast knew that I had this movie star crush on Matt Damon, so every time they’d say, ‘Matt Damon is in the audience tonight,’” Menzel said. “So I’d hit the high note for Matt Damon, and he was never there.”
After a false start when Damon got tickets for his mom and dad, the Bourne actor finally did see Wicked and meet Menzel, but it didn’t go quite like she planned.
“He was there with his wife,” Menzel said. “He looked like he hated Wicked. He just seemed so bored by it. She was so sweet, and [his] daughter, but he just seemed to hate it.”
At that point, Kimmel told Menzel he had Damon “backstage,” and cut to Damon sitting in a dimly lit room in a Boston shirt with a Jimmy Kimmel dartboard behind his head.
“I’m kinda hurt by this,” Damon said. “I loved Wicked. And I loved Idina in it.”
Menzel appeared visibly surprised by Damon’s appearance.
“But you didn’t say anything!” Menzel retorted. “You didn’t say it was good or anything!”
“Because I was so moved!” Damon protested.
But before he could continue his apology, Kimmel cut him off, amusingly painting him as the bad guy once more.
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