Actor and exhausting talker Matt Damon has waded haphazardly into discussion of a post-Harvey Weinstein Hollywood, by embarking on a car-crash interview in which he appeared to conflate false accusations of sexual misconduct with the #MeToo movement, and argued that men who have groped or harassed women should be forgiven as they haven't molested children or raped women.

Speaking to ABC News journalist Peter Travers while ostensibly promoting his latest film, Damon argued that while he is supportive of women being "empowered" by speaking out about their experiences of sexual harassment, he also insisted that there is a "spectrum of behaviour" that should be respected, and that certain behaviours aren't bad enough to warrant loss of work as a result.

"There's a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right?" he said. "Both of those behaviours need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they shouldn't be conflated, right?"

Despite admitting he doesn't "know all the details" and doesn't "do deep dives", Damon still decided to argue that Louis CK, one of the men named and shamed in recent sexual misconduct exposes, probably shouldn't have lost work or been professionally ruined as a result.