Matt Damon Had a Beard for a Year and Slimmed Down to His High School Body Weight For Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

Matt Damon took getting successful signifier for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey earnestly — and that included slimming down to his precocious schoolhouse value for the role.

"I had a beard similar yours for similar a year," helium told Jason and Travis Kelce connected a caller occurrence of their podcast New Heights. "I was successful truly bully shape. I mislaid a batch of weight. [Nolan] wanted maine thin but strong."

He besides noted that a circumstantial alteration successful fare helped him get there. "Just due to the fact that of this different happening that I did with my doctor, I stopped eating gluten,” Damon explained. “I utilized to locomotion astir astatine betwixt 185 and 200, and I did that full movie astatine 167. And I haven't been that airy since precocious school. So it was a batch of grooming and a truly strict diet."

The Ocean’s Eleven prima besides told the hosts however grooming truthful intensely for the relation felt playing a play of nonrecreational sports. "I ideate what that feels similar for you guys, wherever you're preparing," Damon said to the Kelces. "It's conscionable portion of your day, it's portion of your job, and you get truly routinized astir it and kinda physique your time astir each that stuff."

Damon besides revealed that helium has yet to reintegrate gluten into his regular post-shooting The Odyssey. "I'm done. I'm gluten-free everything," the Good Will Hunting histrion declared. "I recovered a gluten-free beer. It's been truthful agelong since I've had gluten, I can't archer if it's bully oregon not. So that's a bully sign."

The Odyssey was written and directed by Nolan and stars Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya, Charlie Theron, and much alongside Damon. It’s the archetypal of Nolan’s movies to beryllium changeable connected IMAX 70mm film.

The adaptation of Homer’s epic poem from past Greece is lone a fewer abbreviated months distant — the movie premieres successful theaters connected July 17 — truthful fans volition get to spot Damon’s slim framework successful enactment precise soon. In fact, it’s astir apt going to beryllium the item of the summertime if you inquire me.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.