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Matt Damon says he used a female stunt double in The Odyssey

moviesJul 21, 2026622,733

Matt Damon said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that a woman served as his stunt double for a scene in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. He said the double covered parts of his role because a special camera effect required her for the shot. Damon praised the performer’s physicality, calling her arms the "most impressive" and acknowledging he could not take full credit for some of the muscular footage. The remark followed other on- and offline attention to the film’s in-camera physical work and Damon’s on-screen physique, which commentators and interviewers had highlighted during the movie’s release and press cycle. The disclosure credits a specific stunt performer for a visible moment in the film and was part of publicity conversations around The Odyssey’s production choices.

elias isquith
@eliasisquith.blog

i understand ppl are disappointed that THE ODYSSEY is sexless but ask yourself some Qs first like: do i actually *want* to see christopher nolan try to make a sexy ODYSSEY? or: am i mentally capable of handling the discourse that would ensue if he depicted even just one Homeric sex scene accurately?

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Nina Metz
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Why Aren’t There More Imax 70mm Screens for ‘The Odyssey’? variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Sources at Imax confirmed to Varietythat many of the parts needed to build these specialized film projectors "simply no longer exist." The original design files were created roughly half a century ago, but as Gelfond alludes to, they were never properly maintained. As a result, Imax no longer has a complete manufacturing blueprint — and much like the lost tribal knowledge of the Apollo-era spacecraft, very few engineers working today fully understand the systems.
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