Matt Damon reveals a major secret about his appearance in ‘The Odyssey’

The American actor portrays the role of Odysseus in Christopher Nolan’s epic Greek adaptation

By TCP News Desk Published July 21, 2026 at 04:50 PM GMT+5 Updated 8 hours ago
Matt Damon reveals a major secret about his appearance in ‘The Odyssey’
Matt Damon reveals a major secret about his appearance in ‘The Odyssey’

Matt Damon recently reveals a major secret about his appearance in The Odyssey movie.

After receiving praise from host Josh Horowitz for his acting and “the greatest bicep”, the American actor makes shocking confession about his impressive physique during an appearance on latest episode of Happy Sad Confused podcast.

Damon opens up that he had a female stunt double for one key scene in Christopher Nolan’s latest movie.

Thanking Horowitz for extolling his biceps, The Rip actor says, “When we did the forced perspective stuff of the Laestrygonians — I don’t know if there’s been a thing about how we did it — there were these stunt men who were all seven feet.”

Then, Damon, who plays Odysseus in the movie, mentions that they “got stuntmen who were under five feet”.

Interestingly, The Martian actor points out that his double was “a woman, a female stunt performer, who had the greatest arms I have ever seen”.

Recalling his first meeting with a woman stunt, Damon shares that she came into the catering tent and he met her for the first time and even hugged her, thanking 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,” adds the 55-year-old actor.

Meanwhile, The Odyssey is running in theatres now and continues to dominate the box office after fourth day of its release. 

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