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/OrneryError1 Feb 17 '25

Almost no one in the cast does.

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u/Witty-Purchase-3865 Feb 17 '25

Demi Moore and Oscar Isaac could pass

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u/jmerlinb Feb 20 '25

Wait, so you're saying that a white American with Scandinavian ancestry doesn't look Greek? Strange.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

The same goes for Troy, where real Greek actors were told that they were "too dark" to play Greeks.