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\"I mean, anybody who says you couldn’t predict this, just look at 'Contagion,'” Damon noted. “Ten years ago we made a movie just by talking to experts and asking them, ‘How would this look? How would it go down?’”

Before signing off, Damon also got the chance to surprise a superfan nurse, whose favorite movie of his happens to be “Good Will Hunting,” the film that won him and best friend Ben Affleck an Academy Award for best original screenplay in 1998.

“Thank you so much for what you’re doing,” he told the health care worker. “If there’s any silver lining it’s that hopefully people are finally understanding how awesome you front-line workers are and what you guys do and the debt we owe you guys.”

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