{"id":595132,"date":"2026-04-09T07:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595132\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:11:14","slug":"tom-holland-praises-chris-nolans-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595132\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Holland Praises Chris Nolan’s “Odyssey”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Screenshot: Universal Pictures<\/p>\n

A few weeks before \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day,\u201d its star Tom Holland will be out and about promoting his role in Chris Nolan\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d which releases in cinemas and on IMAX on July 17th.<\/p>\n

Holland stars as Telemachus, son of Matt Damon\u2019s lead character Odysseus in the film. Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong\u2019o, Charlize Theron, Benny Safdie, Elliot Page, John Leguizamo, Himesh Patel, Bill Irwin, Jon Bernthal, Mia Goth and Corey Hawkins co-star in the film which follows Odysseus\u2019 perilous journey home after the Trojan War.<\/p>\n

Back in January came the news that Nolan had seemingly already finished the film with a version (likely with unfinished FX) screened at the time. Nolan is famous for doing everything in camera and practical as much as possible.<\/p>\n

Speaking with GQ<\/a> recently, Holland calls the project an \u2018absolute masterpiece\u2019 and says when he watched it recently, it gave him a feeling he hadn\u2019t had in movies in a long time:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unlike anything that I\u2019ve ever seen before. I think when I saw the movie, I found myself asking a question that I haven\u2019t asked about a movie for a long time, which is, \u2018How did you do that?\u2019<\/p>\n

There were certain sequences in the movie where I\u2019m watching it and I\u2019m just sort of thinking like, \u2018How on earth has he done that? That has to be CG\u2019 and then after the movie asking him, \u2018That was definitely CG, right?\u2019 And he\u2019s like, \u2018No, no, no, that\u2019s all in camera effects. Very planned, very prepared.\u2019<\/p>\n

So I think fans are going to be really, really blown away by the set pieces and sequences throughout the movie, because even as someone that was there on the day and was in the film, I was absolutely blown away by the scale, the scope, his ability to navigate such an intricate and heartfelt story in the middle of this insane kind of action movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holland also says he\u2019s an advocate for the cinemagoing experience, saying \u201cfor the next 10 years of my life that I will be very focused on\u201d building relationships and working with the studios that can keep the cinemas going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot: Universal Pictures A few weeks before \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day,\u201d its star Tom Holland will be out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-595132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bigslider","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}