AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Matt Damon used a female stunt double in 'The Odyssey' — and says she earned the screen time
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