The Odyssey has a completely stacked solid stuffed with each long-time Christopher Nolan collaborators and new additions to the troupe. To play Odysseus and Penelope, Nolan and his go-to casting director, John Papsidera, turned to a pair of acquainted faces: Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway, who completely embodied the filmmaker’s distinctive tackle the well-known epic poem.
However when he got down to solid their son, Telemachus, Nolan opted for a brand new face, though one which audiences will nonetheless acknowledge. Tom Holland of Spider-Man fame performs the essential function in The Odyssey, and in a brand new behind-the-scenes guide, Filming the Odyssey: Contained in the Making of Christopher Nolan’s Fashionable Epic, the director explains why he selected Peter Parker to play the prince of Ithaca. Polygon has an unique preview from a piece centered on the casting course of.
“He was in a position to faucet into that boyish enthusiasm within the early elements, that idealism about who his father is, what is going on on, after which actually chart that passage into maturity and maturity and somewhat little bit of the darkness that comes with that jaded high quality,” Nolan says. “I imply, he is in such an excellent place in his life and profession to tackle this half right now.”
In different phrases, Holland (30) had the precise proper look to play the 20-year-old Telemachus, even when the actor has admitted he thought the character was speculated to be nearer to 16.
There’s additionally a second motive Nolan solid Holland, and it might come all the way down to his Spider-Man films. Within the guide, the director notes that Holland has “an unimaginable potential to soak up choreography, to switch battle strikes within the second, to take course.” In different phrases, he might carry out advanced battle scenes, which is ironic since Nolan truly modified the plot of Homer’s Odyssey in order that Telemachus largely does not take part within the last massacre in Ithaca after Odysseus returns residence.
In the identical part of Filming the Odyssey, Holland presents his personal perspective on the character and what makes it an incredible function.
“For me, as Telemachus, it is a coming-of-age story,” he says. “It is a few younger child from boy to man. It is about this insatiable want to seek out his father and finally succeeding. It is about defending his mom. It is about rising up and coming to appreciate who he’s on this loopy world.”
Forward of the Aug. 25 publish date, take a look at a number of extra pages from Filming the Odyssey: Contained in the Making of Christopher Nolan’s Fashionable Epic under with insights on the casting of Damon, Hathaway, and Robert Pattinson.
