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Anne Hathaway and Matt Damon discuss Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, diving into Greek mythology, working with Nolan, marriage, what they miss most when they're away from home, and the incredible Finding Nemo theory. CHAPTERS 0:00 Coming Up 0:44 The Odyssey is Finding Nemo 1:42 The Odyssey Group Chat 2:26 Costumes in The Odyssey 3:15 The Secret to Odysseus and Penelope's Marriage? 5:10 What Do You Miss From Home? 7:00 Working with Nolan on 'The Odyssey' #TheOdyssey #AnneHathaway #MattDamon SUBSCRIBE to Heart for more content like this http://www.youtube.com/thisisheart/ LISTEN to Heart on Global Player https://app.af.globalplayer.com/Br0x/HeartLive/ or search 'Global Player' in your app store FOLLOW our socials Website: http://www.heart.co.uk/ Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thisisheart/ TikTok: http://www.tiktok.com/@thisisheart/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thisisheartofficial/
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The Odyssey's basically finding Nemo
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How is it? It's just a guy looking for his dad, and his dad's out there looking for him
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Does that make me Dory? I think I'm Dory. I just keep swimming
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Swimming. I'm Lindsay, and I'm from Heart Radio. All right. Congrats. Thank you so much
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You must feel your life is like a press junket at this point. I've been like so much back-to-back press
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You know what's so nice is that when it's done, it's really done, and I'm really home, and it's very different
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So these actually feel like this is lovely. This is amazing. No one could stand between me and home
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Now you're the gods. Keep us free! Guys, I loved the film
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I was nervous going into the film because we studied this at school and I was like, hang on
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I haven't done this for like 17 years. There's a lot of big characters in there
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a lot of monsters, a lot going on. And someone outside the theater went to me
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don't worry it's basically finding nemo and i was like now explain it and then what is it it's
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finding nemo he went it's just a guy looking for his dad and his dad's out there looking for him
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and in the end does that make me dory i think i'm dory i just keep swimming swimming oh my gosh you
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hold things down and like the cyclops is bruce the shark kind of maybe definitely am i wrong who's
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the dentist. I don't even know. So yeah, that kind of worked for me. And after I
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heard the Finding Nemo thing, I was like, I'm into it. I know what's going on here. Perfect way to contextualize the movie
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Are you going to say this to Chris? I'm not. I'm going to save that
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for Matt and Anne. We're going to stop that right there. But what a
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cast. What a film. When I first saw the cast, I was like, this is surely
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AI. This is a joke. This can't be real. Is there a WhatsApp group
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Do you guys all together? No, not a text chain. We should get one going on the press tour
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We should get one going on the press tour. I have individual conversations happening, but no, we've never gone full group
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Yeah, I'm in a group chat with the guys who played Odysseus' crew
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You know all those guys who well don want to give anything away but they maintained a big group chat Yeah okay but you kept it you on your own Anne you just texting There are different storylines you know what I mean Yeah yeah yeah yeah
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I'm still connected with the people from my storyline. Yeah. Yeah, on your island, in your castle, you're like, I'm going to keep it to those guys
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Do you know what gives me a little bit of anxiety about this film as well? The costumes
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Not for you, Anne, because yours were beautiful, you had silk, you had the plaits, you had the gowns
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Matt, there was a lot of itchy capes a lot of, especially towards
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the end, you spent a lot of time draped in material didn't you? Yes, definitely
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look, it's our costume designer Ellen Mirajnik is one of the best to ever do it
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and I mean I can't say enough about the work that she did and she actually
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made that look uncomfortable but it was pretty comfortable. Oh, it was cozy? It was fine. Okay, it's fine
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unless me you will come back what if i can't also guys you are married in the film of course don't see a lot of each other
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um probably didn't film together that much until the end do you think that's the secret to a happy
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staying away from each other kind of why it works with me in my perspective space do you think that's
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why they kind of work. It's so hard to say, right? Because one of the things we talked about was
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so many of the marriages of, you know, the royal class of that time period would have been for
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political convenience. And these two found out they were actually beautifully compatible. They
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were soulmates. They really, really loved each other. And so, you know, it's kind of a feeling
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that I think maybe you get if you find yourself in a beautiful relationship, which we are all
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aware is very rare which is just that who gets this like who gets to live in a house and have
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food and have a child and really really be into the person that you're spending your life with
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and miss someone as well yeah like power of actually caring about someone so much you miss
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them and so i personally think that probably why it works worse than the absence you think it love more than absence But you know I an optimist and a romantic Yeah I feel you
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What about you, Matt? Do you think that's why it kind of works? Because they never see each other? Well, no, I think, as Anne said
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there is this incredible longing to be back together. So, you know, I do think there is in marriage
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yeah, you want to continue to have an individual life and honor somebody else's individual life
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You know, like if my wife wants to have a girls' night, you know what I mean
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It's like, I'm all for that, you know what I mean? It's like, yeah, get out, but, you know, do your thing
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That's healthy. But not for seven years or whatever. But not for 20 years, yeah
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Yeah, that's a year girls' night. That's too much. I'd start wondering after about year 19
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You're both away from home at the moment. Obviously in this film, Odysseus is away from home
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What do you miss? What are the little things when you're not there? Other than, you know, the obvious family partners
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Oh, I just, what you're just saying, the little things. Yeah. Just the little things. Just the stuff that you can't plan
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What happens when you're just all in a room together and someone says something so unexpected
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and like you're all crying with laughter. Just, just those sort of things
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The kind, it's, you don't plan for it. It's just my, the chemistry I have with my family and the way I feel like I'm home with them
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That's, that's the thing. Also, you know, we live in New York
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The food's great. We're in London right now. The food is great. Yeah, how does it compare? Oh, I mean..
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What do we think? Well, I feel very spoiled for choice here because I have a friend here who made some great restaurant recommendations
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So I'm actually exploring, like, the restaurants while I'm here. So that's going pretty well
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So that's really nice. But, like, the little things, the comfort things that you know are always there
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I don't have that layer here yet. So I don't know where to go to, like, find my croissant
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or something like that. I can tell you. Do you have one? I've got places. Thank you. And I've got places you should steer clear from as well
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Which is an important recommendation as well. With pastry, you've got to know. Yeah
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Because it has to be worth it. It has to be crispy. It has to be crunchy and flaky
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Don't. I'm just... Sorry, I made you hungry. It's a scroll. Matt, what do you miss when you're not at home
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Well I have my whole family with me on this leg of this journey So I have to go with We have five dogs so we miss our dogs right now because we away from them What are they up to currently They just hanging out together in a little pack and someone watching them for us
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so they're fine, they'll be alright but we get pictures of them
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Aw, little updates. Yeah, little updates. That's actually more painful sometimes. They're doing great, they're thriving without us
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Do they know I miss them? I have a question for you. When you got the part, obviously
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The Odyssey's quite long. The books, they do go on a little bit
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Have you read The Odyssey? Sure, yeah, yeah. Front to back? Front to back
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And when I got the part, I went and got a copy and read it again
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Because I think there was like a week or two before he got the script to me
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I think he was still finishing it up. So yeah, I immediately went out and read it again
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If Christopher Nolan was directing me, I would do the research. which I would read, just in case he tests you on day one
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He's not a testing type person. Okay. People think he's a testing type person. Really? Yeah
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And so I think that's one of the reasons why we were saying that you prepare within an inch of your life
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But yeah, I think we were all there to make his version of it
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So I think the script was the thing more so than like
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you know, are you a classics major? Right. Yeah. He's not like Helen of
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Right. Joy. Day one. We did get a sheet to help us know how to pronounce everybody's names
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Because some of the names, you look down at them and there's just no modern equivalent for it
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Yeah, so Antinous weirdly was the one that I could not wrap my head around
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Antinous took me ages and finally I went up to Rob and I was just like, how do you pronounce it
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He's like, we've got to figure this out. Don't say it. Spoiler alert, he figured it out. It's Antinous
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You know when you can't say someone's name in real life and you just call them like, babe, mate, hey buddy
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I know, I know and you're just like, I hope I'm getting away with this right now. Well, you certainly do
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I really, really loved the film, guys. It's incredible. I learned a lot again a second time round
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so thank you so much
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