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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had a special brush with fame lengthy earlier than she joined the Supreme Court docket.
Jackson revealed in a current interview that whereas she was a pupil at Harvard College, she was a scene accomplice to future Academy Award winner Matt Damon.
Jackson instructed “CBS Sunday Morning” that Damon was a 12 months forward of her at Harvard, the place the 2 had been as soon as paired collectively in drama class.
“He’s not going to recollect this, after all,” she mentioned of Damon performing a scene from “Ready For Godot” along with her. “The rationale why I bear in mind it’s as a result of he was already form of well-known round campus and off campus, so it was form of thrilling to be his scene accomplice for a selected class.”
The scene went properly for her, Jackson recalled.
“On the finish, the professor mentioned, ‘Ketanji, you had been excellent. Matt, we’ll discuss,’” she mentioned. “I used to be like, ‘Oh my god, I used to be higher than Matt Damon in a scene.’”
Damon, who left Harvard with out graduating, instructed the Associated Press in 2022 that he didn’t recall his efficiency with Brown however responded in an announcement, “That’s so cool!”