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Robert Pattinson felt like he was being filmed by “an SUV” when he was shooting The Odyssey scenes.
The movie is the first ever film shot entirely with IMAX film cameras, and Pattinson admitted the size of the equipment took some getting used to.
Speaking on an IMAX video in a behind-the-scenes look at The Odyssey, shared on IMAX’s X account, Pattinson said: “It feels like you’re shooting a scene with like an SUV (laughs).”
Despite the huge size of the cameras, Pattinson was shocked by their speed.
He added: “Even with the size of the camera, you just feel like the machine would move slower, and it just moves faster than if you were shooting on an iPhone.”
Director Christopher Nolan admitted it was a dream come true to shoot the movie entirely with IMAX cameras.
He said: “For me, it’s been my long-held dream, since I was 16 years old, to do an entire film on IMAX.
“The thing that was stopping us was always the sounds.
“It is a long-held dream finally coming to fruition.”
Nolan recently described The Odyssey as a “nightmare to film – but in all the right ways”.
The 55-year-old filmmaker’s upcoming blockbuster brings Homer’s epic ancient Greek story to the big screen.
And Nolan explained that he had an “amazing time” shooting the movie during a hectic production process across Morocco, Greece, Italy, Iceland and Scotland.
Speaking at a presentation for The Odyssey at CinemaCon in April, Nolan said: “This has been a nightmare to film – but in all the right ways.”
The Oppenheimer director reserved praise for The Odyssey’s leading man Matt Damon, whom he referred to as his “partner on this journey”.
Nolan recalled: “He was there on the boats, up the mountains, in the caves, in the beating sunshine, sideways rain, wind. You’ll be pleased to know how difficult it was. It was meant to be; that’s the nature of the story.”
Attendees at CinemaCon in Las Vegas got an extended glimpse of The Odyssey – which will be released in July – and Nolan explained that he decided to adapt Homer’s story for the cinema because it “has fascinated generation after generation”.
He said: “Why The Odyssey? The Odyssey is a story that has fascinated generation after generation for 3,000 years. It’s not a story. It’s the story.”
