{"id":233057,"date":"2026-01-14T16:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/233057\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:55:07","slug":"the-odyssey-is-the-pinnacle-of-matt-damons-career-actor-explains-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/233057\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odyssey Is the Pinnacle of Matt Damon\u2019s Career, Actor Explains Why"},"content":{"rendered":"

After working in Hollywood for over 30 years, Matt Damon<\/a> believes The Odyssey<\/a> is the \u201cpinnacle\u201d of his career.<\/p>\n

Why is The Odyssey the pinnacle of Matt Damon\u2019s career?<\/p>\n

Damon and Ben Affleck<\/a> recently appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a> to promote their upcoming Netflix<\/a> movie, The Rip. During the interview, Damon spoke about the \u201cfantastic\u201d opportunity he received to be the lead in Christopher Nolan<\/a>\u2018s epic adaptation of The Odyssey.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was absolutely the pinnacle of my entire career,\u201d Damon said. <\/p>\n

Affleck was lucky enough to visit the set and witness the massive Hollywood production. Damon joked that Affleck was the only guest in six months of shooting. For Damon and the crew, there was no time to entertain guests or focus on anything other than filming the movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was such an ambitious project that the amount of work that needed to be done, there was just no time for anything else,\u201d Damon explained. \u201cI\u2019ve never, ever done a movie that just required every single person to work to kind of give the maximum effort. I said to him [Affleck] that every location on that movie would have been the hardest location on any other movie I\u2019ve ever done, and any day of work would have been harder than any other day on any other movie I\u2019ve ever done.\u201d<\/p>\n

In The Odyssey, Damon stars as Odysseus, the Greek king of Ithaca who embarks on a treacherous journey home after the Trojan War. During his travels, Odysseus encounters several eye-opening creatures on his voyage, including a Cyclops. <\/p>\n

Damon headlines a star-studded cast that includes Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong\u2019o, Zendaya, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Himesh Patel, Mia Goth, and Charlize Theron.<\/p>\n

Nolan writes and directs The Odyssey, based on the epic poem by Homer. Nolan produces alongside Emma Thomas. The Odyssey is Nolan\u2019s first movie since the Oscar-winning Oppenheimer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Odyssey is scheduled to be released on July 17, 2026.<\/p>\n

Originally reported by Dan Girolamo for SuperHeroHype<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After working in Hollywood for over 30 years, Matt Damon believes The Odyssey is the \u201cpinnacle\u201d of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[58943,156,15660,3130,111,139,69,95371,437],"class_list":["post-233057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-entertainment","tag-matt-damon","tag-movie-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-the-odyssey","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}