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The cast and crew of The Odyssey are continuing to share behind-the-scenes secrets into how Christopher Nolan brought his new film to life.
Nolan has repeatedly spoken about how his approach to adapting Homer’s Ancient Greek tome was to, as much as possible, forego CGI, preferring to showcase practical effects instead.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Tom Holland named the film’s pyrotechnics as one of its most impressive elements, admitting: “I have never seen anything like that before.”
The Spider-Man actor claimed he’d been wowed by “how quickly” Nolan’s team were able to turn off the fire effects and then “just turn it off again”.
“You called cut… and it just went out!” he enthused. “It’s literally like a tap. It was amazing.”
In the run-up to The Odyssey’s release, leading man Matt Damon claimed the film was “definitely the biggest movie I’ve ever done in my career, in terms of its scale”, and he told EW that he was still impressed at the “amount of co-ordination to make this happen and to do it all in camera”.
“Even the first day walking in Essaouira, walking on that beach and seeing thousands of people, it just beggared the imagination,” Matt admitted, describing the spectacle as “bigger than anything I’ve ever seen”.
Last year, Nolan opened up about his preference for practical effects, claiming during an interview with Empire magazine: “By embracing the physicality of the real world in the making of the film, you do inform the telling of the story in interesting ways. Because you’re confronted on a daily basis by the world pushing back at you.”
More recently, Nolan has spoken candidly about the “terrifying” task of bringing the cyclops character to life on screen without relying on computer wizardry, while the cast have brought up one particular sequence even they were shocked to learn doesn’t feature any CGI.
The Odyssey is currently in cinemas.
