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Matt Damon physically transformed to play Odysseus successful Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, but he besides had immoderate thief from stunt performers successful immoderate cardinal scenes.
In a caller interview, Damon revealed that 1 of his stunt doubles was a female opinionated successful arsenic nan Greek leader arsenic nan characteristic faces nan elephantine Laestrygonians.
“When we did nan unit position worldly pinch nan Laestrygonians… location were these stuntmen who were each 7 feet, and past they sewage stunt men who were nether 5 feet,” Damon said connected nan Happy Sad Confused podcast. “My double was a woman, a female stunt performer who had nan top arms I’ve ever seen.”
He continued, “When she came into nan catering tent, it was nan first clip I met her. I went up and hugged her and thanked her for each nan activity she put in.”
Damon said that “there are those shots wherever you spot these giants looming complete maine [and that’s her],” adding, “It was almost 100% my arms successful nan movie, but you sewage to springiness it up wherever it’s due.”
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The Odyssey has had an epic container agency tally truthful acold pinch a $264.1M world opening weekend. This number is simply a grounds for Nolan, whose Dark Knight Rises premiered successful 2012 to $249M worldwide. The movie already scored nan champion Monday this twelvemonth successful nan U.S. pinch a reported $18.67M, and Tuesday is already tracking to present $20M more to its total.
Damon’s co-stars successful nan Greek epic besides see Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Jon Bernthal, Mia Goth, Elliot Page, and Lupita Nyong’o, among others.
Watch Damon’s afloat question and reply connected nan Happy Sad Confused podcast successful nan video below.
