Matt Damon had to break a promise to his wife to film ‘Oppenheimer’

She didn’t like them apples. 

Matt Damon and wife Luciana Barroso made a deal while in couples therapy — after a lengthy career and countless nights away from home, the 52-year-old promised to take a break from acting. 

However, there was one condition —  if director Christopher Nolan were to call, Damon had a “get out of jail” free card.

“This is going to sound made up, but it’s actually true,” the star told Entertainment Weekly.

“I had — not to get too personal — negotiated extensively with my wife that I was taking time off. I had been in ‘Interstellar’ and then Chris put me on ice for a couple of movies, so I wasn’t in the rotation, but I actually negotiated in couples therapy… the one caveat to my taking time off was if Chris Nolan called. This is without knowing whether or not he was working on anything, because he never tells you. He just calls you out of the blue,” Damon said.

So, when Nolan contacted Damon to offer him the role of General Leslie Groves, director of The Manhattan Project in the hotly anticipated summer movie “Oppenheimer,” that was, as Damon put it, “a moment in my household.”

Damon stars alongside Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, and Emily Blunt in what’s tipped to be one of this summer’s biggest blockbusters, opening July 21.

Damon wouldn’t specify why he and his wife were seeking therapy in the first place, but the two were spotted packing on the PDA on a European vacation earlier this month.

The “Bourne” series star and former bartender Barroso have been married since 2005. The couple have three daughters together: Isabella, 17, Gia, 14, and Stella, 12. Damon also has a stepdaughter from Barroso’s previous marriage, Alexia, 24. 

Perhaps in an effort to smooth over his broken promise to his wife, Damon brought his whole family to the “Oppenheimer” premiere. His children are rarely seen in public.

In recent years, Damon’s career has been going full tilt, as he’s launched a production company with longtime pal Ben Affleck. He’s also starred in and produced a wide range of movies back to back, including “Air,” “The Last Duel,” and even appeared in minor roles in the “Thor” movies. 

He’s also recently revealed that when movies haven’t gone as well as he’s hoped, it has caused him to “fall into a depression.” 

Meanwhile, Nolan, 52, has been telling reporters he’s not interested in directing another superhero movie after his “Batman” trilogy, starring Christian Bale. In a recent interview with The Telegraph, Nolan blasted studios for focusing on a movie’s plot above all else. 

“Whether for budgetary reasons or reasons of control, studios now look at a screenplay as a series of events and say, ‘This is the essence of what the film is.’ And that’s completely at odds with how cinema developed…” Nolan said.

“But it’s a very popular fallacy — sometimes with critics as well, quite frankly — that all that matters is the scale of the story being told. People will tell you that the success of ‘Star Wars’ had nothing to do with its visual effects, and it was all down to its great story,” Nolan continued.

“But, I mean, clearly that’s not the case. It is indeed a great story, but it’s also an incredible visual and aural experience. So this willful denial of what movies actually are has set in.”