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The actor was at his high school weight of 167 pounds while filming “The Odyssey.”
Key Points
- Matt Damon revealed that his stunt performer in The Odyssey is a woman with “the greatest arms I’ve ever seen.”
- The actor reached his high school weight of 167 pounds while getting in shape to portray Odysseus.
- The Odyssey is now in theaters.
Matt Damon is flexing a major secret about his arms in The Odyssey.
After Happy Sad Confused podcast host Joshua Horowitz congratulated Damon on his acting, his beard, and “the greatest bicep” he had seen “outside of a Hemsworth” brother, the Oscar winner admitted that someone else did his heavy lifting. His stunt double for Christopher Nolan’s latest movie was a woman with impressive biceps.
“When we did the forced perspective stuff of the Laestrygonians ... there were these stunt men who were all seven feet. And then they got stuntmen who were under five feet” Damon, who portrays Odysseus, began.
“My double was a woman, a female stunt performer — who had the greatest arms I’ve ever seen. And when she came into the catering tent the first time I met her, I went up and hugged her, and I thanked her for the all the work she’d put in.”
“There are those shots in the movie where you see these giants looming over me...so it was almost 100 percent my arms in the movie, but you gotta give it up where it’s due.”
Devyn Dalton commented, “It was my honour to double @matt_damon_official ♥️.” Dalton’s IMDb credits include stunt work for The Odyssey and in television series Once Upon a Time, The Last of Us, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians,
Damon’s routine to get in shape for the movie resulted in him returning to his high school weight of 167 pounds, he told PEOPLE.
“It was more about just getting really, really physically fit, which just really involves changing your diet, just a whole lifestyle change,” he admitted in the magazine’s July cover story. “You have to just be very, very intentional about everything you’re putting in your body.”
Damon also called it the “most challenging movie I’ve ever been a part of.”
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He also teased what it was like working on the epic film with Nolan.
“It really felt more like an expedition than a movie,” Damon concluded “And if you were cold and wet, you just turned and you looked and Chris was just as cold and just as wet and going through it.”
Joining Damon onscreen for The Odyssey, based on the epic poem by Homer, are Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Tom Holland, Jon Bernthal, Charlize Theron, and Jon Leguizamo.
The Odyssey is now in theaters.
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