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Matt Damon, Tom Holland and Zendaya are back to filming Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.
Damon, 54, Holland, 29, and Zendaya, 28, were each seen spending time on The Odyssey’s set in Scotland on Monday, July 14 as filming for director Nolan’s next movie continues. While engaged couple Holland and Zendaya arrived separately off a small boat not in costume, Damon, who is playing the movie’s lead character Odysseus, waved to photographers as he arrived wearing his full costume – which included dark boots, an ancient Greece-style tunic and cattle armor, as well as a long dark green cape that billowed out behind him.
Damon, Holland and Zendaya’s arrival in Scotland marks the first time the group of actors have been photographed filming the movie on location in recent months. The group were seen in Favignana, Italy, back in March, where Damon was first seen showing off his impressive physique to portray the ancient Greek hero.
An initial teaser for the movie released exclusively in theaters ahead of Jurassic World Rebirth. It featured Holland’s character Telemachus — Odysseus’ son — speaking with a character portrayed by Jon Bernthal, as well as the voice of John Leguizamo, who holds an as-of-yet undisclosed role in The Odyssey.
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Leguizamo, 64, recently told PEOPLE that working with filmmaker Nolan on the project “was like being with a visionary — like what I imagine it must have been like to work with Stanley Kubrick.”
“We were in amazing locations. It’s seven countries,” Leguizamo said, while otherwise discussing season 2 of his MSNBC travel documentary series Leguizamo Does America. “They’re in Morocco, Greece, Sicily, back to L.A., and [Nolan is] bringing work back to L.A. and to America, which is incredible.”
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“A huge American cast. It’s diverse — oh my God, I just love this project,” he added during the conversation, during which he said he largely shot his scenes for the movie with Damon, Holland and Robert Pattinson, whom he described as a “a dream team.”
Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron Mia Goth, Elliot Page and Benny Safdie will also star in The Odyssey, Nolan’s first movie since his 2023 blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer, which won a number of Academy Awards. Universal revealed the first photo of Damon in character — dressed in armor and a cape with a coordinating headpiece — back on Feb. 17.
The Odyssey sails into theaters July 17, 2026.
