Devyn Dalton, Matt Damon's Stunt Double, in The Odyssey
Matt Damon, who plays Odysseus in Christopher Nolan’s interpretation of Homer’s epic tale, said in an interview that she had “the greatest arms I have ever seen.”
Damon had been discussing one of the film’s pivotal scenes when he gently corrected his interlocutor, who had mistakenly assumed the biceps in the shot were his own: They belonged to Dalton, who some might be surprised to learn is his stunt double. She’s a woman standing in for a male actor, for starters; she’s also 4-foot-6 to Damon’s roughly 5-foot-10 frame. Indeed, a shot of Dalton from behind in the scene, holding a sword and ready to pounce at the giants, is used in one of the posters for the movie.
That scene, in which Matt Damon stands facing the giants, has become famous for his biceps, which are not his but Devyn Dalton’s. Damon said in the interview that on the first day he met Dalton and hugged her he immediately noticed that she had “the greatest arms” he'd ever seen.
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Ohh that's cool I didn't know that lol. Did you watch the movie as well?
No. Just trailers etc. I'll likely get it when it's released for streaming. I have not been in an actual movie theatre for at least 15 years lol
Haha, been around 5 or 7 years for me, I forgot. It was nice, nothing's changed - which is nice and familiar in itself
It surprised me that; 1 - his stunt double is a woman, 2 - she has incredibly muscular arms, and 3 - she's only 4-1/2 feet tall.