{"id":833945,"date":"2026-11-14T02:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T02:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/833945\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T02:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T02:38:15","slug":"robert-downey-jr-interviews-christopher-nolan-matt-damon-about-the-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/833945\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr. Interviews Christopher Nolan, Matt Damon About ‘The Odyssey’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPrior to this week, the awards<\/a> campaign for The Odyssey<\/a> was eerily quiet. Christopher Nolan<\/a> has been averse to campaigning, as always, but perhaps more so than ever in the wake of his Oppenheimer Oscars<\/a> sweep three years ago. Anne Hathaway has been on maternity leave. And Matt Damon<\/a>, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland and Zendaya have been in production on movies. John Leguizamo and Samantha Morton have been doing their best to carry the load, but many observers were wondering if and when the big guns would finally come out, given that several other contenders \u2014\u00a0among them La Bola Negra and You Can See Everything \u2014\u00a0have been steadily picking up steam.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis week, we got our answers.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Tuesday night, hundreds of industry insiders \u2014\u00a0guild members and press \u2014 gathered on the Universal lot for the world premiere of Behind the Scenes of The Odyssey, a 75-minute film about the making of the epic. Nolan made opening remarks, and Damon moderated a post-screening Q&A with 12 key behind-the-scenes contributors to the film: producer Emma Thomas<\/a>, casting director John Papsidera, editor Jennifer Lame, production designer Ruth de Jong, costume designer Ellen Mirojnick, head of hair department Gloria Casny, head of makeup department Luisa Abel, sound mixer Willie Burton, supervising sound editor Craig Henighan, composer\/songwriter Ludwig G\u00f6ransson and visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tFrom left: Matt Damon, Emma Thomas, Ludwig G\u00f6ransson, Ellen Mirojnick, Jennifer Lame, Ruth De Jong, Craig Henighan, Willie Burton, Gloria Pasqua Casny, Luisa Abel, Andrew Jackson, Scott Fisher and John Papsidera.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images for Universal Pictures)<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Wednesday evening, across the pond, the film screened at the BFI Imax, on the largest Imax screen in the U.K., in front of hundreds of Academy and British Academy members. Afterward, Scottish TV presenter Edith Bowman moderated a Q&A with Pattinson \u2014 who\u2019s currently generating significant conversation as the apparent frontrunner for the role of James Bond\u00a0\u2014 and Holland.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tFrom left: Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland and Edith Bowman.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKate Green\/Getty Images for Universal Pictures<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, back in Hollywood on Wednesday night, following a 70 mm Imax screening of the film at the TCL Chinese Theatre, Nolan, Thomas and Damon sat for a Q&A moderated by none other than Robert Downey Jr.<\/a>, who, of course, won an Oscar for Oppenheimer. Downey introduced Thomas as \u201cthe one person without whom none of us would be here tonight,\u201d hailed Damon for giving \u201ca generation-defining performance\u201d and described Nolan as \u201cby any metric the most consequential, influential, successful and important director of his generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTHR is pleased to exclusively share footage of that full conversation below.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso on Wednesday night, simultaneously but across town, the film screened at the Academy Museum\u2019s Ted Mann Theater, after which G\u00f6ransson, James Blake and Travis Scott, the trio behind the film\u2019s end-credits track \u201cWhen I\u2019m Home,\u201d discussed their collaboration in front of an audience of Society of Composers and Lyricists members.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Thursday night, the film screened yet again, this time at Nolan\u2019s preferred Imax in the L.A. area, the one at Universal CityWalk Hollywood, for an audience made up of members of the Visual Effects Society. Afterward, Nolan and the film\u2019s VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson were interviewed by Nolan\u2019s fellow best director Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro, a visual effects aficionado himself.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tFrom left: Christopher Nolan and Andrew Jackson are interviewed by Guillermo del Toro.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSavion Washington\/Getty Images for Universal Pictures<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, ahead of Sunday\u2019s Governors Awards, more talent from The Odyssey is descending upon Los Angeles, so an additional 70 mm screening will be held on Saturday night at the Academy Museum, this one targeting Academy and SAG-AFTRA nominating committee members, after which a Q&A will be held with Damon, Holland, Leguizamo, Morton, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong\u2019o, Himesh Patel and Elliot Page.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo begins, for team The Odyssey, the odyssey that is the Oscar season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prior to this week, the awards campaign for The Odyssey was eerily quiet. Christopher Nolan has been averse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[20267,6491,2826,181062,96,2828,33357,273620,16233,22546,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-833945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-awards","tag-celebrities","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-emma-thomas","tag-entertainment","tag-matt-damon","tag-oscars","tag-oscars-2027","tag-robert-downey-jr","tag-the-odyssey","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}