Casting director John Papsidera talks about Tom Holland and The Odyssey
About casting Matt Damon and Tom Holland as father and son:
"I think Tom Holland is a chameleon. I think he has such a range within him. He shapeshifts into characters that are nuanced, have a youth to them and yet are incredibly bright. It's a combination of things you don't see often in young actors, especially of that skill. And so I just thought that with Matt, Tom felt not only a young leading man following in his father's footsteps, but somebody that matched him intelectually, somebody matched him physically in a certain sense. All those kind of things kinda came together, and yet he still has the sensitivity that Anne Hathaway possesses as his mom, and the nuance that she has in her acting. Tom was a real perfect fit for me in that kind of triangle of relationships."
About casting for the movie overall:
"In Oppenheimer, I talked about this before in interviews, we worked on filling the roles with actors that gave respect to the history and place that they held in that time-frame. The scientists were the rockstars of their generation, so we worked hard not to make them faceless characters, but to give them the dignity of a soul, right? And I think with The Odyssey the stakes were even higher, because these are characters with epic proportions. So while people might go 'oh, it's a star-studded cast'. Yes! We also needed people of that magnitude to fill the magnitude of the story, the giganticness of these characters. Not only in their literary history, but in what they do. Chris recently said that Homer wrote the Marvel superheroes of his time, and that is kinda the case. So we needed superstars and people to fill that largeness of characters. And once it started, it was putting all pro-athlethes on a field all day long. The meshing happened because they were so tighten in their own ways."
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