Charlize Theron makes raw comment about Odyssey co-star Matt Damon's physique after seeing him without costume
Charlize Theron got a little too candid when asked about her co-star Matt Damon's incredible body transformation for The Odyssey.
Damon stars in the lead role, as Odysseus, in Christopher Nolan's hit film, with Theron starring as immortal sea nymph Calypso, who holds him hostage for seven years as he tries to return home.
While the movie was slammed for its modern dialogue, questionable historical accuracy and lack of Greek actors in the run-up to its release, it's turned out to be a box office sensation, raking in more than $260 million globally.
Damon and Theron weren't strangers prior to the film, having worked together on the 2000 hit film The Legend of Bagger Vance, but Theron has seen her co-star in a whole new light after undergoing his transformation for the role.
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"I've seen him without all of that suit on," the 50-year-old told Entertainment Tonight. "He's incredible. Incredible."
As the two attended The Odyssey's London premiere, she told the interviewer: "I'm staring at him weirdly. I'm looking at his a*s right now.
"I shouldn't do that, that's just wrong," the Hollywood star laughed.
"He looks amazing!" Theron added.
Although Theron is currently single, the comments were said in jest, as Damon, who was reportedly paid $15 million for his leading role in The Odyssey, has been married to his wife, Luciana, for 20 years.
They share three daughters, Isabella, 20, Gia, 17, and Stella, 15.
The Good Will Hunting star also adopted Luciana's daughter from her previous marriage, Alexia.
Damon underwent a huge transformation for the role of the Greek hero, shedding up to 30lb. Earlier this year, he told Jason and Travis Kelce on their New Heights podcast exactly how he did it.
“[Nolan] said he wanted me lean but strong, and so its a weird thing, I don’t want to bore the s**t out of you but I literally, just because of this other thing I did with my doctor, stopped eating gluten," he told the brothers.
“I used to walk around at between 185 [pounds] and 200 and I did that whole movie at 167. I haven’t been that light since high school.
“So it was a lot of training and a really strict diet.”
Despite undergoing this huge change, Damon recently said his physique was nowhere near as impressive as his female stunt double's.
"When we did the forced perspective stuff of the Laestrygonians, there were these stuntmen who were all seven feet. And then they got stuntmen who were under five feet," Damon said, while appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.
"My double was a woman, a female stunt performer—who had the greatest arms I've ever seen."
Although she'd clearly seen Damon's impressive physique, there was something Theron hadn't seen - the movie.
During the interview with ET, the Mad Max star revealed that the London premiere, which took place on July 8, was her first time seeing the blockbuster.
The Odyssey: The ancient poem and the filming locations
Written: Between 725 BC and 675 BC, so more than 2,500 years ago
Based on a true story? Mostly no (cyclops aren’t real). Historians are unsure if the Trojan War really happened
Who wrote The Odyssey? Homer, but historians don't know much about him and debate if he is a single person or a group of poets
How long is the movie? 2hrs, 52mins - best go to the toilet beforehand
Where was the movie filmed? The Hellenic Film Commission explained Nolan and co filmed at several locations in the Peloponnese, including Nestor’s Cave, Voidokilia Beach and Almyrolaka Beach, which are all on the island of Pylos; Methoni Castle, at a port town of the same name in southwestern Greece; and Acrocorinth, a monolith overlooking the ancient city of Corinth.
According to Vogue, filming also took place in Morocco, in Marrakech, Tahanaoute, El Haouz, Essaouira and Ouarzazate. The cast and crew were also spotted on the Sicilian island of Favignana, while they filmed in Iceland for the underworld scenes.
Continuing their whistlestop tour of Europe, the Odyssey team also filmed in Scotland, along the Moray Firth Coast and at Findlater Castle and Culbin Forest.
The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm vs normal cinema screens: Helpfully, the film's website shows different versions of the trailer in six different formats, all with different aspect ratios. You can see the difference between IMAX 70mm (warning you now, there are only 25 IMAX 70mm screens in the whole of the US) and the standard 35mm format.
The Odyssey is in cinemas now.
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Kiesha Dosanjh