Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist
Jul 12, 2026 · 44 min · 17 segments
Matt Damon says playing Odysseus in the new movie The Odyssey was like nothing he has ever done before. Damon is working again with famed Director Christopher Nolan after the Oscar-winning…
Matt DamonGuest
Willie GeistHost
It actually feels like some of the restaurants we've passed through on the Odyssey.
Because as someone who sat and watched it in IMAX, which is how everyone will see it, I was just in awe, honestly, of not just the spectacle, but of the performances and the storytelling and the ability of Christopher Nolan to take this epic... and capture the essence of it in a two and a half hour movie.
I have to imagine for you, despite everything you've done over these last 35 years or so, it had to be a unique standalone experience.
Definitely the hardest movie I've ever done, just because it was so ambitious, just because what he was trying to do.
You know, it's a great story, which is why it's survived and why every generation retells it, why we all keep reading it.
The story is an ambitious story to tell, but the way he wants to tell it was incredibly ambitious.
It actually feels like some of the restaurants we've passed through on the Odyssey.
Because as someone who sat and watched it in IMAX, which is how everyone will see it, I was just in awe, honestly, of not just the spectacle, but of the performances and the storytelling and the ability of Christopher Nolan to take this epic... and capture the essence of it in a two and a half hour movie.
I have to imagine for you, despite everything you've done over these last 35 years or so, it had to be a unique standalone experience.
Definitely the hardest movie I've ever done, just because it was so ambitious, just because what he was trying to do.
You know, it's a great story, which is why it's survived and why every generation retells it, why we all keep reading it.
The story is an ambitious story to tell, but the way he wants to tell it was incredibly ambitious.
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