Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Matt Damon didn’t receive “special treatment” on the set of The Odyssey.
The 55-year-old actor leads the cast of director Sir Christopher Nolan’s upcoming epic blockbuster as Odysseus, and he praised the team spirit of the project, insisting the big name stars of the production were treated just the same as the rest of the cast and crew.
He told People magazine: “There was no special treatment.
“If you’re out on a boat in the middle of the ocean and you get caught in a storm, you get wet with everybody else.
“Nobody’s getting a hot beverage that you’re not getting. You know what I mean? Everybody’s on equal footing, including Chris, who was just as cold and wet as everybody else throughout the whole thing.
“So that made it feel like we were really all in it together, because we were. I do feel really bonded with everybody who was on that movie, cast and crew, because it was so challenging for everyone.”
Matt – who is joined in The Odyssey by the likes of Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson and Charlize Theron – admitted making the movie felt like an “expedition”.
He said: “Every single day of filming that movie stands out because it felt more like an expedition than a film.
“It was so difficult to get the shots that we got, the way that we got them, that it really required every single person on that cast and crew to just completely max out day after day after day.”
And the Good Will Hunting star promised audiences will be “getting [their] money’s worth” if they see The Odyssey in the cinema.
He added: “I came away from that experience just feeling really lucky and grateful that I got to be a part of a team like that, because it never could have worked if everybody hadn’t completely just pushed themselves beyond what they thought they could do.
“So I’m really excited for people to see it. It’s worth their money for what it took for us to make it. You’ll be getting your money’s worth.”
Matt recently opened up about shooting the movie alongside “seriously tough” Charlize in difficult conditions on a windy beach in Morocco.
He told ELLE magazine: “She had to do these scenes that were already challenging with a 30-to40-mile-an-hour wind ripping sand into her eyes.
“She’s just a boss, though. The grips were trying to hold screens over, anything that we could do so that we could shoot. But even with all that stuff, she was in massive discomfort, and you wouldn’t know it from seeing the movie.
“I’ve known her for so long, and she is one of those people who won’t complain, ever. And so, when she finally had to say: ‘I literally – I’m so sorry, I can’t keep my eyes open,’ she was angry.
“I think that was probably tougher on her than anything. And I’m like: ‘Charlize, no human being could keep their eyes open, this is ridiculous. Why didn’t you say something earlier?’ That’s her. She is seriously tough.”
