How Christopher Nolan pushes movies to the limit
In a Nutshell
Nolan’s Odyssey aims to be the largest, most demanding film he’s ever made, pushing cast and crew to their limits. Matt Damon endured the toughest shoot of his career, including sequences so intense he nearly drowned. The core message: Nolan deliberately escalates scale and difficulty to match the epic nature of the story.
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In taking on the Odyssey, it does become about scale. It needed to be the biggest film that we had done. It needed to be challenging to all of us, because that's the nature of the story.
Looks like you nearly drowned Matt Damon.
We certainly put him through his paces. It was the hardest movie I've ever done, by far. Not even close.
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