{"id":562740,"date":"2026-07-22T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/562740\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:28:09","slug":"matt-damons-the-odyssey-co-star-shares-her-weird-reaction-to-his-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/562740\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon\u2019s The Odyssey Co-Star Shares Her \u2018Weird\u2019 Reaction to His Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Matt Damon&#8217;s &#8220;The Odyssey&#8221; co-star, Charlize Theron, opened up about her &#8220;weird&#8221; reaction to his physique for the movie. The &#8220;Good Will Hunting&#8221; star portrayed the titular Greek king of Ithaca, Odysseus, in Christopher Nolan&#8217;s epic fantasy action film based on Homer&#8217;s ancient epic.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Damon&#8217;s co-star, Charlize Theron, said this about his physique in The Odyssey<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Charlize Theron;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;outcm:mb_qualified_link;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/movies\/articles\/matt-damon-says-done-extreme-162815675.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlize Theron<\/a>, who played the nymph Calypso in &#8220;The Odyssey&#8221;, gushed over co-star Matt Damon&#8217;s physique. In a red carpet interview with Entertainment Tonight at the London premiere of &#8220;The Odyssey&#8221; on July 6, the &#8220;Atomic Blonde&#8221; actor called Damon&#8217;s physique &#8220;incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When reporter Kevin Frazier pointed out the &#8220;shape&#8221; the Oppenheimer star is in, she said, &#8220;I made this movie with him. I was with him. [\u2026] I&#8217;ve seen him without all of that suit on.&#8221; The <a data-ylk=\"slk:Oscar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/events\/oscars\/\" class=\"no-affiliate-link link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar<\/a> winner then appeared to be looking at Damon, who was also at the premiere, and said, &#8220;It&#8217;s weird. I&#8217;m, like, staring at him weirdly. I&#8217;m looking at his ass right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Hollywood star also joked about how she &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t do that&#8221; because &#8220;that&#8217;s just wrong.&#8221; She still doubled down on how &#8220;amazing&#8221; the &#8220;Ford v Ferrari&#8221; actor looked. Elsewhere in the interview, she said it was &#8220;refreshing&#8221; to play a character who was a &#8220;nurturer&#8221; rather than a &#8220;fighter.&#8221; She also praised her young co-stars, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s fantastic. Everybody in this movie is quite incredible. And I think it&#8217;s a strength of Christopher Nolan. He knows how to cast a film.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Theron and Damon previously worked together in the movie &#8220;The Legend of Bagger Vance&#8221; in 2000. In a joint interview with co-stars Zendaya and Samantha Morton on <a data-ylk=\"slk:Today;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/popculture\/movies\/charlize-theron-matt-damon-the-odyssey-reunion-30-years-rcna587285\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Today<\/a>, the &#8220;Mad Max: Fury Road&#8221; actor reflected on her reunion with the 55-year-old. She said, &#8220;It was amazing. I think that was maybe for me the biggest surprise, was how sentimental it started to feel. Like, we did the first take, and I just went, &#8216;Oh my God, we did this when we were babies,&#8217; and here we are, two old humans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a data-ylk=\"slk:Matt Damon&#039;s The Odyssey Co-Star Shares Her &#039;Weird&#039; Reaction to His Body;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mandatory.com\/news\/1816192-matt-damon-the-odyssey-body-charlize-theron-reaction\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Damon&#8217;s The Odyssey Co-Star Shares Her &#8216;Weird&#8217; Reaction to His Body<\/a> appeared first on <a data-ylk=\"slk:Mandatory;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mandatory.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Damon&#8217;s &#8220;The Odyssey&#8221; co-star, Charlize Theron, opened up about her &#8220;weird&#8221; reaction to his physique for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,73968,50678,93,61,60,98032,83194],"class_list":["post-562740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-charlize-theron","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-matt-damon","tag-the-odyssey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}