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Inside the Making of The Odyssey with Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, and Christopher Nolan | GQ

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How Hollywood’s three leading-est men led a cast and crew of hundreds to help Nolan create his most epic and ambitious blockbuster to date.

Save this story Save this story In western Sicily, there is an island called Favignana, which is popular with Italian tourists in the summer and used to be called Aegusa, or “goat island.” Odysseus and his crew are thought to have stopped there before their ill-fated encounter with the Cyclops. These days the island hosts a defunct tuna fishery and a ruined castle, the Castello di Santa Caterina, which the director Christopher Nolan found himself hiking up to, 900 feet straight into the air, one day late in 2024. Nolan, in his films, often operates in heightened or alternate worlds: Inception,

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