What do Matt Damon’s celeb pals think of him?

CEBU, Philippines - Matt Damon may be a leading movie star, but his friends will surely never let his fame go to his head.

The actor strikes a suave pose in a suit on the cover of GQ magazine’s August 2016 issue, looking every bit the super spy. He reprises his role as assassin and former government secret agent Jason Bourne in “Jason Bourne,” the fifth film in the hit movie thriller series and the fourth starring the actor.

Several of Damon’s co-stars, including longtime friend Ben Affleck, talked to GQ about the actor – which of course led to some good-natured teasing.

“The quality that has allowed Matt to maintain the illusion that he is Mr. Nice Guy is that he found a young TV actor who was just a pretty face and made friends with him so he would always look good by comparison,” Affleck said. “Matt is very media-savvy and manipulative in that way. He’s like a mix of [O. J. Simpson defense-team members] Bob Shapiro and Alan Dershowitz.”

Tina Fey, creator of “30 Rock,” which had featured Damon as a guest star, said, “People would be like, ‘[Matt and Ben] are so cute!’ And I’d be like, ‘They’re J.Crew sweaters. When you see all the colors next to each other, they look cute, but when you get one home, you’re like, ‘Damn, I just got an orange sweater.’” But now that is withdrawn. In person, Matt holds up.”

Scarlett Johansson, who starred with Damon in the 2011 movie “We Bought a Zoo,” said, “The most amazing gift about Matt’s physical appearance is that he can walk into the hair-and-makeup trailer looking like someone who slept directly on his face for seven hours and emerge a bona fide movie star. He has a great makeup artist.”

George Clooney, who starred with Damon in “Syriana,” the “Ocean’s Eleven” trilogy and “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” which he also directed, paid the actor the ultimate compliment. “He looks swell in a Speedo,” he said.

Meanwhile, Damon reacted to the guns-on-posters protest which began when a producer proposed removing images of the gun that his titular character wields on the “Jason Bourne” poster. The star says he understands why people would be upset by the presence of guns in the “Jason Bourne” movie posters, but he doesn’t think they should be changed.

“I totally get it. Especially given what’s going on recently, and I get not wanting to see a picture of a gun right now, and I don’t blame her at all,” Damon says.

“I mean for the marketing purposes of ‘Jason Bourne’—he is a guy who runs around with a gun, so it’s not gratuitous marketing, but certainly in light of recent events I understand that impulse to want to tear the gun out of the picture.” (FREEMAN)