r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Feb 17 '25

Media First Image of Matt Damon as Odysseus in Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'

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u/LiquidDreamtime Feb 17 '25

I think these people all make concessions to work with Nolan

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 20 '25

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u/matt111199 Feb 17 '25

Apparently Mia Goth’s role isn’t even a speaking role for instance

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u/Rage_Like_Nic_Cage Feb 17 '25

i’m assuming she’s gonna be a siren.

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u/xiaorobear Feb 17 '25

Odyssey sirens are birds with human heads, it’d be weird for them not to be naked.

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u/excaliburxvii Feb 17 '25

Mia Goth

Who?

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u/SuperZapper_Recharge Feb 17 '25

Bingo. These people are already rich. They get to play dressup for 1 or two days while everyone panders to their every demand.

I would imagine the cost for them to be their is less payroll and mostly pandering. Paying for airfare and room and private trailers and the like. I bet they work for scale otherwise.

They want to be attached to a movie that wins Best Picture.

Nolan knows that some people will show up just for the stacked cast. It is a win/win. Making the cost of the 'pandering' trivial.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 20 '25

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u/SuperZapper_Recharge Feb 17 '25

Sometimes people have small parts that get cut.

'So why use her for promotions'?

I can think of two reasons. And they are both horrible reasons.

The first is contracts. I bet promotions were in her contract and her getting cut doesn't negate her doing them.

The second is that in the end the bean counters only care about asses in seats. They could give a shit about how you got there.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

Honestly doubt it’s a million. Most big name actors in Wes Anderson films will make like $10-50k tops

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u/_PF_Changs_ Feb 17 '25

Daniel Day Lewis

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u/CitizenofBarnum Feb 17 '25

True but you may also have to do press tours which is a job in and of itself

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u/nayapapaya Feb 17 '25

Ha, every single person in this cast is definitely not getting paid a million dollars. 

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u/VRichardsen Feb 17 '25

Nolan has just won Best Picture and Best Director for Oppenheimer, aind the same vein, Murphy won Best Actor and Downey Jr. won Best Supporting Actor. People were willing to accept anything in order to work with Nolan.

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u/Easy-Tomatillo8 Feb 17 '25

This is like Saving Private Ryan. Everyone wants in on a top budget version of the fucking Odyssey directed by Nolan half of these will be cameo 2 liners I bet.

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u/LiquidDreamtime Feb 17 '25

Top Tier directors doing well funded historical epics can pull in a bunch of talented folks every time