The Odyssey director Christopher Nolan does not own a cell phone and now his leading man Matt Damon revealed how he gets into contact.
Years ago, the 55-year-old filmmaker Nolan revealed that he operates without a cell phone and does not communicate using text or email.
Now Damon – who also recently revealed that the director had ‘waterboarded’ him – recalled how he found out that he was going to portray Odysseus in the film.
The A-list star revealed to People that Nolan’s wife and Oscar-winning producer Emma Thomas ‘had texted me, “Are you around for a call today?” Because Chris famously doesn’t have a phone.’
Damon said that it is Thomas, 54, who ‘always gives you a heads-up if he’s going to call.
‘And then you get a phone call from a nondescript number, because he’s just picking up a line at Universal Studios.’
The Odyssey director Christopher Nolan does not own a cell phone and now his leading man Matt Damon (pictured at the premiere in New York Monday) revealed how he gets into contact
The A-list star revealed to People that Nolan’s wife and Oscar-winning producer Emma Thomas texted him if he could take a call before Nolan rung him up to offer him he role of Odysseus
Nolan and Thomas met at University College London when he was 19 as she has worked as a producer on all of his films since 1997. They have four children together.
The actor said that even Nolan has no idea what phone number he will be calling from.
Describing the call, Damon said: ‘He called and we chatted for 10 or 15 minutes.
‘It was only six months after Oppenheimer had gone through the Oscars and all of that.’
Damon previously opened up about the challenges he faced on set while filming the epic with the filmmaker at the helm.
In the highly-anticipated epic, Damon portrays the protagonist in Greek and Roman mythology, the aforementioned Odysseus, as he faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca and meets creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens and the nymph Calypso along the way.
Damon recently described the intense final days of filming to People as he said: ‘We were laughing at the end because we were shooting some close up raft stuff that was too dangerous to do on the open water.
‘So we’d shot some wides, but we did some stuff on the tank that involved Chris pouring water over my face while I was lying there and I was like, “This is perfect. We’re ending this with waterboarding.”‘
Damon, Nolan, Thomas, and Anne Hathaway are seen left to right at The Odyssey premiere in New York on Monday
In the highly anticipated epic, Damon portrays Odysseus, as he faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca and meets creatures like Polyphemus, Sirens and Calypso along the way
Damon (pictured with Zendaya in the film) said: ‘We did some stuff on the tank that involved Chris pouring water over my face while I was lying there and I was like, “This is perfect. We’re ending this with water boarding”‘
As if that wasn’t already enough to deal with, Damon joked about having to deal with a few of his ‘phobias’ including being stuffed into a giant Trojan horse.
Damon said: ‘I worked through a lot of them on this one, definitely.
‘Claustrophobia was one, but I hope I’m on the other side of that one now.’
The Odyssey features an incredibly star-studded cast including Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Tom Holland, Elliot Page, Jon Bernthal, and John Leguizamo. It is in theaters now.
