Matt Damon’s Unordinary Year: The Odyssey, Tarantino & The Oscars

With _The Odyssey,_ lightning struck twice for Matt Damon. _Good Will Hunting_ is considered sui generis, without precedent. To add Christopher Nolan’s epic onto your resume almost 30 years on is rarefied air. Now, at the tail end of year spearheaded by a $1.8 billion box office and punctuated by seven separate film projects, Matt finds himself winding down. Here Damon chats with GQ’s Frazier Tharpe about the intricacies filming everything for _The Odyssey_ in IMAX, the pressures of the Oscars, and the role that got away.

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00:00 – Tarantino’s praise
04:53 – The Odyssey & Nolan’s nerves
11:11 – Matt Damon, the family guy
17:28 – The not-so-urban legend of ‘The List’
23:36 – The role that got away
25:12 – Working with Jack Nicholson
32:13 – The pressure of the Oscars
35:27 – “You have to let it take over your life”

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