Charlize Theron makes ‘bizarre’ remark about married Odyssey co-star’s physique

Charlize Theron has heaped reward on co-star Matt Damon’s insane bodily transformation for The Odyssey.

The 2 actors shared lots of display time throughout Christopher Nolan’s almost three-hour-long movie, starring as Odysseus and Calypso, the latter an immortal goddess who falls in love with the long-suffering common and tries to persuade him to stick with her on a secluded island.

Theron just lately spoke to Entertainment Tonight about what it was wish to work with Damon whereas taking pictures the scenes, with the Mad Max actor revealing that she’d been very impressed with the 55-year-old’s bodily transformation.

“I’ve seen him with out all of that go well with on. He is unimaginable. Unbelievable,” Theron stated of her co-star’s ripped physique.

She then went on to joke that it felt ‘mistaken’ to be Damon within the buff, saying: “I’m, like, gazing him weirdly. I’m his ass.”

“I shouldn’t try this! That’s simply mistaken,” she added, earlier than doubling down on how ‘wonderful’ the actor’s physique appeared.

Damon and Theron’s scenes had been largely shot in Malta, with Calypso’s Cave being filmed on the island of Gozo, whereas a part of Odysseus’ seven years with Calypso was controversially filmed in Western Sahara, in accordance with The Radio Times, a territory which is below partial navy occupation by neighbouring Morocco.

What are critics saying about The Odyssey?

Nolan’s epic, his first movie since Oscar-winning Oppenheimer, has been essentially the most anticipated movie of 2026 to this point.

Dividing viewers with the choice to make use of fashionable English dialects and American accents, in addition to Nolan taking pictures on 70mm IMAX cameras, that means the movie can solely be correctly seen at 41 cinemas worldwide, have all been main speaking factors within the movie world over the previous couple of months.

Regardless of some confusion over Zeus’ Legislation and the ‘Sea Peoples’, reactions to the movie have been overwhelmingly constructive to this point, at the moment sitting at a 94 p.c score on Rotten Tomatoes on the time of writing.

Empire journal has referred to as the variation a ‘worthy new translation of an historical textual content’, whereas a evaluate from the London Night Normal described Nolan’s work as ‘an epic worthy of the gods’.

Critics have additionally heaped reward on the movie’s completely stacked forged, which incorporates Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Elliot Web page and Anne Hathaway.

So, in brief, that you must see it – and ideally on the most important display potential.

The Odyssey: The traditional poem and the filming areas

Written: Between 725 BC and 675 BC, so greater than 2,500 years in the past

Based mostly on a real story? Largely no (cyclops aren’t actual). Historians are uncertain if the Trojan Warfare actually occurred

Who wrote The Odyssey? Homer, however historians do not know a lot about him and debate if he’s a single particular person or a bunch of poets

How lengthy is the film? 2hrs, 52mins – finest go to the toilet beforehand

The place was the film filmed? The Hellenic Movie Fee defined Nolan and co filmed at a number of areas within the Peloponnese, together with Nestor’s Cave, Voidokilia Seaside and Almyrolaka Seaside, that are all on the island of Pylos; Methoni Fort, at a port city of the identical identify in southwestern Greece; and Acrocorinth, a monolith overlooking the traditional metropolis of Corinth.

In response to Vogue, filming additionally occurred in Morocco, in Marrakech, Tahanaoute, El Haouz, Essaouira and Ouarzazate. The forged and crew had been additionally noticed on the Sicilian island of Favignana, whereas they filmed in Iceland for the underworld scenes.

Persevering with their whistlestop tour of Europe, the Odyssey staff additionally filmed in Scotland, alongside the Moray Firth Coast and at Findlater Fort and Culbin Forest.

The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm vs regular cinema screens: Helpfully, the film’s website reveals completely different variations of the trailer in six completely different codecs, all with completely different facet ratios. You’ll be able to see the distinction between IMAX 70mm (warning you now, there are solely three IMAX 70mm screens in the entire of the UK) and the usual 35mm format.

The Odyssey is in cinemas now.