Matt Damon, who plays the Greek hero, Odysseus, in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming epic drama, The Odyssey, recently opened up about his real experience of working on the film. This marks the third collaboration between Damon and Nolan, as they have previously worked together on Interstellar and Oppenheimer.
Matt Damon labels The Odyssey his toughest project yet
In a new 60 Minutes interview, Matt Damon admitted that The Odyssey is the “hardest” movie he has ever been in. “It was the hardest movie I’ve ever done by far. I mean, not even close,” he said, revealing that Christopher Nolan was upfront about how hard the movie would be.
“The first meeting I had with him, at the end of the meeting, he said, ‘This movie’s going to be hard.’ I kind of looked at him, like, ‘I’ve made, I don’t know, a hundred movies or whatever,'” Damon said. “I looked at him like, ‘Yeah, I know.’ And he looked at me and went, ‘No, this movie’s going to be really hard.'”
In the TIME magazine profile for Nolan, the Good Will Hunting star said that he approached The Odyssey as the “last movie” he would ever do. He wrote, “There aren’t a lot of people in their mid-50s as protagonists in these epics. I looked at this like the last movie I’d ever do.” He also praised the director of The Dark Knight for making such a huge-scale movie without a green screen.
“Movies like this are not getting made anymore. To do this without a green screen, the way that David Lean would have done it, I don’t know anybody, with the exception of Chris, that’s even trying to do that,” Damon said. The movie also stars Anne Hathaway as Odysseus’ wife Penelope; Tom Holland as their son Telemachus; Charlize Theron as the nymph Calypso; Zendaya as the Goddess of wisdom Athena; and Robert Pattinson as Penelope’s suitor Antinous.
Originally reported by Ankita Shaw on Mandatory
