Devyn Dalton, a female stuntwoman, joins “Jesse Weber Live" to discuss subbing in for Matt Damon in the box office sensation, “The Odyssey.” Dalton played a key part in acting as a double during a technical sequence that required Damon’s character, Odysseus, to appear smaller as he stood before a group of Laestrygonian giants. "The world has been receiving it so well. I knew it was me on the promo posters. So it's just so exciting to share that with the world,” Dalton said. #theodyssey #mattdamon #stuntwoman "Jesse Weber Live" brings a fresh, fast-paced, and often unexpected take on the day’s headlines, diving into the biggest stories through the lens of legal expertise.
Matt Damon revealed that a female stunt performer doubled for him in key scenes of Christopher Nolan's *The Odyssey*, praising her physique and crediting her contribution to the film's massive opening weekend. Damon made the disclosure on the *Happy Sad Confused* podcast with host Josh Horowitz, explaining how Nolan's production team used an old-school filmmaking […] The post Matt Damon used a female stunt double in 'The Odyssey' — and says she earned the screen time appeared first on American Almanac .
Matt Damon revealed that a female stunt performer doubled for him in key scenes of Christopher Nolan's *The Odyssey*, praising her physique and crediting her contribution to the film's massive opening weekend. Damon made the disclosure on the *Happy Sad Confused* podcast with host Josh Horowitz, explaining how Nolan's production team used an old-school filmmaking trick, forced perspective, to make the mythological Laestrygonian giants look enormous on screen without relying on computer-generated effects. The technique required pairing very tall stunt performers with very short ones, and Damon's stand-in fell into the latter category. The result: a woman stood in for one of Hollywood's most bankable leading men. And Damon, to his credit,…Open
