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Jordan Farley

Matt Damon "literally" went through The Odyssey to make Christopher Nolan's new epic, says co-star: "He would always have this incredible excitement about what we were doing"

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Matt Damon in The Odyssey.

Matt Damon spent six months filming The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan's next event movie. But despite the onerous task of playing Odysseus in the film, his "gratitude" over the experience never waned, according to two Nolan veterans.

During a conversation with GamesRadar+ to discuss The Smashing Machine, Damon's Odyssey co-star Benny Safdie, and Oppenheimer's Emily Blunt (who won't appear in the new film), touched on their "goosebumps" over Nolan's 2026 adaptation of Homer's epic poem, and Damon's still-palpable excitement about having spearheaded the stacked cast.

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