{"id":540101,"date":"2026-07-23T09:41:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/540101\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T09:41:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:41:25","slug":"matt-damon-had-a-female-stunt-double-for-the-odyssey-the-greatest-arms-ive-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/540101\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon had a female stunt double for The Odyssey: ‘The greatest arms I’ve ever seen’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Damon is a part of one of the year’s biggest films. Over the past couple of years, he’s been working on “The Odyssey,” a project that he’s described as the largest and most ambitious of his life. In numerous interviews, he’s discussed the physical change he had to go through, including a diet that led him to being the leanest he’s ever been.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Matt\u00a9 Pierre MoutonMatt Damon is a part of one of the biggest movies of the year<\/p>\n

He’s opening up about his stunt double for one of the movie’s key sequences, a woman with “the greatest arms” he’s ever seen.<\/p>\n

Damon<\/a> discussed the scene at the Happy Sad Confused\u00a0podcast, which shows a moment where his warriors meet a group of giants named the Lestrygonians. \u201cWhen we did the force perspective stuff with the Laestrygonians\u2026 there were these stuntmen who were all seven feet, and then they got stunt men who were under five feet,” he said. \u201cMy double was a woman, a female stunt performer who had the greatest arms I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Matt\u00a9 Alexander TamargoHe revealed that a woman was his stunt person in a key sequence<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen she came into the catering tent, it was the first time I met her. I went up and hugged her and thanked her for all the work she put in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Damon said that while he worked out a lot, he couldn’t take credit for her arms. \u201cIt was almost 100% my arms in the movie, but you got to give it up where it\u2019s due,” he said.<\/p>\n

Damon’s hard work has been praised by his co-stars
\n \"Charlize\u00a9 Getty Images for Universal PictuCharlize Theron had some praise for Damon’s body<\/p>\n

All through the promotional run of the movie, Damon<\/a> has discussed the toll of losing weight and developing muscle for the film. One of his co-stars, Charlize Theron, had some great compliments for her co-worker and friend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I’ve seen him without all of that suit on. He’s incredible. Incredible,” said Theron<\/a> in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. \u00a0“I’m like staring at him weirdly. I’m looking at his a** right now. I shouldn’t do that! That’s just wrong. He looked amazing, yes,” she quipped, hilariously.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Matt\u00a9 Getty ImagesMatt Damon had a female stunt double for The Odyssey: ‘The greatest arms I’ve ever seen’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Damon is a part of one of the year’s biggest films. Over the past couple of years,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,6496,156,15660,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-540101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-fitness","tag-entertainment","tag-matt-damon","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540101","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=540101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}