Matt Damon on The Odyssey and Working with Christopher Nolan
About this episode
Matt Damon discusses his role as Odysseus in The Odyssey and his collaboration with Christopher Nolan.
Matt Damon says playing Odysseus in the new movie The Odyssey was like nothing he has ever done before. Damon is working again with famed Director Christopher Nolan after the Oscar-winning blockbusters Interstellar and Oppenheimer. Damon got together with Willie Geist to discuss the challenges of shooting this movie fully in IMAX, traveling to several remote locations and enduring the elements to tell Homer’s epic saga.
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