{"id":4857,"date":"2026-06-05T20:43:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/matt-damon-calls-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-the-hardest-movie-ive-ever-made\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T20:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:43:24","slug":"matt-damon-calls-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-the-hardest-movie-ive-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/matt-damon-calls-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-the-hardest-movie-ive-ever-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon calls Christopher Nolan&#8217;s &#8216;The Odyssey&#8217; the &#8216;hardest movie I&#8217;ve ever made&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2F129868003.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Matt Damon says his upcoming epic, \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d was the \u201chardest movie\u201d he\u2019s ever made. <\/p>\n<p>But at least \u201cThe Rip\u201d star got some pet therapy while talking about the experience at the famed Eastwood Ranch Foundation\u2019s Animal Rescue and Adoption Facility in LA this week. <\/p>\n<p>Damon, who\u2019s on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/matt-damon-robert-pattinson-tom-holland-cover-interview-summer-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">cover<\/a> of the new GQ promoting \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d also did an interview about his upcoming Christopher Nolan movie with a perhaps less obvious outlet, animal advocacy site The Dodo. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>LA pit bull rescue Betsy has had a \u2018ruff\u2019 time being adopted, so Matt Damon is giving her a hand.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/The Dodo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Matt Damon visited the Eastwood Ranch to help find a home for Betsy the pit bull.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/The Dodo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The animal-loving star, who has five pets at home, appears in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZNPBstjMZJ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dodo<\/a> Instagram clip at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYxH9FpiVmC\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">Eastwood Ranch<\/a> to support its California Adopt-A-Pet Day event on June 6. <\/p>\n<p>The Oscar winner, 55, is first seen holding Jojo, an adorably scruffy terrier mix puppy who\u2019s straight out of central casting for a \u201cBenji\u201d reboot. (Seriously, Jojo could be snapped up by a CAA canine division, if such a thing existed.)<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Damon also plays with a fluffy blind and deaf mutt named Piper, who has a contraption around her head for protection. <\/p>\n<p>While on the ground petting the cute pup, Damon says of working with \u201cOppenheimer\u201d auteur Nolan on their latest project together: \u201cIt was by far the hardest movie I\u2019ve ever made. Chris likes to shoot everything real. So there\u2019s no kind of green screen, no faking it, no kind of studio stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The star says \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d was the \u201chardest movie\u201d he\u2019s ever made.  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Universal\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Damon and his family already have five pets of their own. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/The Dodo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The star talked about his new film while promoting pet adoption.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/The Dodo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back to the rescue ranch, Damon explains to viewers he\u2019s really there to visit Betsy, a pit bull\u00a0who\u2019s been waiting for a home for one and a half years after being rescued from an LA shelter. <\/p>\n<p>While playing with Betsy, Damon puts a bandana on the pooch as man and beast bond. <\/p>\n<p>He explains that the four-legged friend is his doggie \u201cdate\u201d for the day because, \u201cBetsy\u2019s been here the longest\u2026 she really needs a family to take her in.\u201d He also dubs her, \u201cBetsy the little hippo.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>And they say Hollywood is a dog-eat-dog town.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/The Dodo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Damon also appears on the cover of the new GQ (without a dog).  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/The Dodo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p>The Eastwood Ranch Foundation was founded by Alison Eastwood. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/05\/celebrity-news\/matt-damon-calls-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-the-hardest-movie-ive-ever-made\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Damon says his upcoming epic, \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d was the \u201chardest movie\u201d he\u2019s ever made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/129868003.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}