{"id":157922,"date":"2026-07-23T06:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/23\/matt-damon-still-cant-believe-he-was-ketanji-brown-jacksons-college-scene-partner\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T06:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:54:19","slug":"matt-damon-still-cant-believe-he-was-ketanji-brown-jacksons-college-scene-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/23\/matt-damon-still-cant-believe-he-was-ketanji-brown-jacksons-college-scene-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon Still Can\u2019t Believe He Was Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s College Scene Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t believe she would say \u2018I know that guy\u2019 when she\u2019s a Supreme Court Justice! It\u2019s amazing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0<\/i><\/span>Actor Matt Damon<\/a>, in comments given during an interview with CBS Mornings<\/a>, after being shown a clip of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/a> reminiscing about being his scene partner during a drama class<\/a> in college. Damon said he didn\u2019t remember being her partner until he heard her voice, and when he finally put two and two together, he said, \u201cI was like, \u2018Oh my God!\u2019 And then I\u2019m running around telling my kids, I\u2019m like, \u2018You know who I did a scene with?\u2019 When she was confirmed, it was like \u2026 it was amazing.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Matt Damon Still Can\u2019t Believe He Was Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s College Scene Partner<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t believe she would say \u2018I know that guy\u2019 when she\u2019s a Supreme Court Justice! It\u2019s amazing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0<\/i>Actor Matt Damon<\/a>, in comments given during an interview with CBS Mornings<\/a>, after being shown a clip of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/a> reminiscing about in college. Damon said he didn\u2019t remember being her partner until he heard her voice, and when he finally put two and two together, he said, \u201cI was like, \u2018Oh my God!\u2019 And then I\u2019m running around telling my kids, I\u2019m like, \u2018You know who I did a scene with?\u2019 When she was confirmed, it was like \u2026 it was amazing.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. I can\u2019t believe she would say \u2018I know that guy\u2019 when she\u2019s a Supreme Court Justice! It\u2019s amazing. \u2014\u00a0Actor Matt Damon, in comments given during an interview with CBS Mornings, after being shown a clip of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reminiscing about being his scene […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Staci-Zaretsky-PP1le5.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}