Tom Holland Praises Chris Nolan’s “Odyssey”

A few weeks before “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” its star Tom Holland will be out and about promoting his role in Chris Nolan’s “The Odyssey” which releases in cinemas and on IMAX on July 17th.

Holland stars as Telemachus, son of Matt Damon’s lead character Odysseus in the film. Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, Benny Safdie, Elliot Page, John Leguizamo, Himesh Patel, Bill Irwin, Jon Bernthal, Mia Goth and Corey Hawkins co-star in the film which follows Odysseus’ perilous journey home after the Trojan War.

Back in January came the news that Nolan had seemingly already finished the film with a version (likely with unfinished FX) screened at the time. Nolan is famous for doing everything in camera and practical as much as possible.

Speaking with GQ recently, Holland calls the project an ‘absolute masterpiece’ and says when he watched it recently, it gave him a feeling he hadn’t had in movies in a long time:

“It’s unlike anything that I’ve ever seen before. I think when I saw the movie, I found myself asking a question that I haven’t asked about a movie for a long time, which is, ‘How did you do that?’

There were certain sequences in the movie where I’m watching it and I’m just sort of thinking like, ‘How on earth has he done that? That has to be CG’ and then after the movie asking him, ‘That was definitely CG, right?’ And he’s like, ‘No, no, no, that’s all in camera effects. Very planned, very prepared.’

So I think fans are going to be really, really blown away by the set pieces and sequences throughout the movie, because even as someone that was there on the day and was in the film, I was absolutely blown away by the scale, the scope, his ability to navigate such an intricate and heartfelt story in the middle of this insane kind of action movie.”

Holland also says he’s an advocate for the cinemagoing experience, saying “for the next 10 years of my life that I will be very focused on” building relationships and working with the studios that can keep the cinemas going.