GQ Magazine Summer Cover Features THE ODYSSEY’s Leading Men: First up, MATT DAMON!

Pin

GQ today revealed its summer issue cover story, featuring the leading men of Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY: First up, Matt Damon!

Pin

On the challenges and the scale of shooting a Nolan-directed film…

“I showed up on these locations was was like, Who fucking thought you could shoot a movie here?”

“It’s just so much bigger—it’s like surging a bigger wave. A wave that’s twice the size isn’t twice as powerful. It’s exponentially more powerful.”

Feeling the weight of wrapping The Odyssey in the current state of the film industry… 

“It’s a little bewildering,” he said. He sounded hollowed-out and amazed. “Because of where the movie business is going, it was a really weird movie for me personally, in the sense that I had almost a nostalgic feeling the entire time I was making it, because it felt like movies were when I started working. And I know that that’s going away. I knew that this was the last chance I was ever going to have to do something like this.”

Reflecting on how he now allocates his time…

“…There’s less of that kind of young person’s engine of needing to prove something and more about, like, accepting work and doing it on your terms and doing it as precisely and as well as you can.”

“I think about it a lot, especially as my kids are getting older: really trying to be here now. And it’s hard for me to do that. And I think maybe that has to do with my own nature. It also has to do with this career where you’re always trying to figure out what’s ahead because it’s such an uncertain business and a pretty ruthless one. Those kinds of things have conspired to, I think, maybe take me out of where I am, more than I’d like.”

– On Newsstands June 9 –

[Photo Credit: Alex Prager / GQ]

• Alex Prager
• Editorials
• GQ
• Magazines
• Matt Damon