The Oscar-winning actor wasn’t wearing his seatbelt, but because his tray was down, he stayed in place. He explained: “My tray table is what held me down. I did not have my seatbelt on, and there was not a seatbelt warning right before it happened. I just immediately reached over, made sure Camila had her seatbelt on.”
Unfortunately, seven other people weren’t as lucky, sustaining injuries due to their seatbelts not being on and/or objects flying through the aircraft cabin.
Matthew told Kelly, “It’s suspended disbelief. I mean, it’s zero gravity. Your red wine and the glass and the plates that your food was on are all suspended, floating, still just in the air. And to look at it for that long, which wasn’t that long — one, two, three, four — and then everything just comes crashing down.”
Matthew was on his way to Vietnam, but after the incident, the plane was rerouted to Washington, D.C. He eventually made it to his destination.
Currently, Matthew can be heard as the voice of Elvis Presley in Netflix’s animated series Agent Elvis. ~Alexandra Heilbron