Christopher Nolan Had 1 Non-Negotiable Situation For Matt Damon’s Odysseus Look

Matt Damon leads The Odyssey‘s spectacular solid as Odysseus, and the actor now reveals that Christopher Nolan had a non-negotiable demand relating to the actor’s look.

Talking to Empire, Damon reveals that Nolan was adamant that he sport an actual beard to play Odysseus. “He desires all of it actual,” the actor says of Nolan. Damon recollects being a bit of apprehensive about his capability to develop facial hair that will be an excellent match, although:

“I would by no means tried to develop a beard that dimension. I imply, there are about 100 issues to take a beard off my face earlier than it could possibly get that lengthy, beginning with my children.”

Damon initially urged that he put on a faux beard for the position, however Nolan was fast to veto that. In response to the director, there is not any substitute for actual hair with regards to his sensible method to filmmaking. Nolan explains:

“I am not an enormous fan of wigs and faux beards. You need the physicality of actual hair, in an effort to put a firehose on the man and do all of the issues we’d like him to do.”

Nolan demanding that his actors be free from wigs and faux beards tracks together with his common method to creating motion pictures. It is no secret that the filmmaker is obsessed with sensible results and capturing issues in digital camera. He famously crashed an actual Boeing 747 right into a constructing for Tenet (2020) as a substitute of utilizing CGI.

Plus, The Odyssey was shot fully on IMAX, a primary for Nolan and for motion pictures on the whole. It is potential that wigs and faux beards would stand out extra within the larger-format picture IMAX creates.

Damon’s beard for the movie was first formally revealed within the debut picture from Nolan’s The Odyssey, but it surely was largely coated up by a helmet. It was within the many leaked set photos that adopted that his look was extra totally unveiled.

Although a teaser trailer for The Odyssey performed in theaters this summer time, teasing Odysseus’ years-long journey house after the Trojan Conflict, one has not but been launched publicly on YouTube. Official footage of Damon in character, then, continues to be arduous to return by, however Empire did lately launch new photos from the film, that are included above.

With Nolan’s subsequent movie set to hit theaters in July 2026, a full-length trailer will in all probability be launched within the close to future. Avatar: Hearth and Ash marks the yr’s final large launch, and it might make sense for extra footage from The Odyssey to be screened forward of the James Cameron sci-fi epic. This time, it may additionally make its approach on-line as a substitute of being theater-exclusive.

Damon is joined in The Odyssey‘s solid by Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Elliot Web page, and Lupita Nyong’o, amongst others. Whereas many questions stay about precisely how Nolan will likely be adapting The Odyssey, it is clear that audiences can anticipate solely actual hair from the actors concerned.