Ketanji Brown Jackson Gushes About Doing 'Better' Than Matt Damon During Undergrad Drama Class
This is just so cute. We love adorable SCOTUS stories like this.
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We were never in an actual performance, but we were in a drama class together and we were paired as scene partners … he’s not going to remember this, of course. The reason why I remember it is because he was already kind of well-known around campus and off campus, so it was kind of exciting to be his scene partner for a particular class.
As I recall, we had to do the scene, we had to memorize a part of it, and we did it together, and it’s a two-person play, a two-person scene. And at the end, the professor said, ‘Ketanji, you were very good. Matt, we’ll talk.’
I was like, ‘Oh my god, I was better than Matt Damon in a scene.’
— Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, happily sharing during an interview with CBS News, about the time she acted a scene out of the play “Waiting For Godot” alongside Matt Damon, while the pair were enrolled at Harvard during their undergraduate years. Damon confirmed that Brown was correct, admitting that he didn’t remember acting with her, but said of the experience in a 2022 interview with the AP, “That’s so cool!”
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