United Kingdom, June 3 -- Matt Damon felt "emotional" reading the Interstellar script.

The 55-year-old actor starred alongside Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Timothee Chalamet and Sir Michael Caine in Interstellar, the 2014 sci-fi movie, and Matt has recalled feeling particularly moved by Sir Christopher Nolan's film script.

Matt - who has Alexia, 27, Isabella, 19, Gia, 17, and Stella, 15, with his wife Luciana - told GQ magazine: "I was so emotional reading this script because I had little kids.

"I was overseas, away from them for two weeks, but I was still away from them. And that script is about losing the entire childhood of your kid. And I remember calling [Nolan] after and going like, 'What the f*** is it w...