Matt Damon slimmed right down to ‘highschool’ weight for ‘The Odyssey’ film position

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Matt Damon revealed how he slimmed right down to his "highschool" weight to play legendary Greek hero Odysseus in his highly-anticipated film "The Odyssey."

The 55-year-old actor reunited with director Christopher Nolan, with whom he beforehand collaborated on the hit motion pictures "Interstellar" and "Oppenheimer," for the upcoming motion fantasy movie, which is an adaptation of Homer’s epic poem "The Odyssey."

Throughout an look on Travis and Jason Kelce's podcast "New Heights," Damon opened up about how he achieved his physique transformation after the retired Philadelphia Eagles participant famous that the "Good Will Searching" star was "getting fairly yoked up" in viral pictures from the film's set.

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Matt Damon dropped right down to his "highschool" weight for his position in "The Odyssey." (Backgrid/Samir Hussein/WireImage)

"Yeah, I used to be in actually good condition," Damon mentioned. "I lost a lot of weight ."

The Academy Award winner defined that Nolan, 55, had a imaginative and prescient for a way he wished Damon to bodily painting Odysseus.

"He mentioned he wished me like lean however sturdy," Damon mentioned. "It is a bizarre factor."

Damon went on to say that he made a key change to his food regimen that helped him shed the kilos.

Damon is pictured on set in April. (CIAOPIX/COBRA TEAM / BACKGRID)

"I actually, simply due to this different factor I did with my physician, stopped consuming gluten," he mentioned. "I used to stroll round between 185 and 200 kilos. And I did that entire film at 167 kilos."

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"I haven’t been that mild since highschool," Damon admitted. "So it was quite a lot of coaching and a very strict food regimen."

Damon, who has beforehand undergone main physique transformations for roles, famous that having the assistance of a private coach is invaluable.

"Trainers are like, ‘What are we doing?’ They usually can sort of do something," he mentioned. "It is simply having sort of a transparent objective and setting it."

Damon drew comparisons between his preparations for bodily demanding roles and the Kelce brothers' routines whereas taking part in within the NFL.

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"After I do this or once I do the ‘Jason Bourne’ motion pictures or no matter, it feels virtually like a season. I'd think about what that seems like for you guys – once you’re getting ready," Damon mentioned. "It’s like simply a part of your day. It’s part of your job , proper? It’s such as you get actually routinized about it and sort of construct your day round all that stuff."

Damon in contrast his preparations for roles to the Kelce brothers' NFL coaching classes. (Reuters)

"That’s sort of the bodily facet of preparing," he added.

Damon additionally instructed Jason and Travis, 36, that he has continued to keep up a gluten-free food regimen after finishing manufacturing on "The Odyssey."

"I am finished," he mentioned. "I am gluten-free every little thing."

"I discovered a gluten-free beer," Damon mentioned with amusing. "It has been so lengthy since I've had gluten, I am unable to inform if it is good or not. So, that is an excellent signal."

"It is working. It is working," Jason instructed him.

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Damon has beforehand opened up about drastically reworking his physique for roles. Within the 1996 battle drama "Braveness Beneath Hearth," Damon misplaced between 40 and 50 kilos in about 100 days to play a Persian Gulf veteran dying from habit and trauma.

The actor later mentioned that his extreme weight loss was harmful and revealed that a physician instructed him that he "may have shrunk my coronary heart completely."

Damon mentioned that Nolan wished him to seem "lean however sturdy." (ANGELA WEISS/AFP through Getty Pictures)

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"I went too far," Damon mentioned through the U.K. outlet Express. "I acquired sick, and I wouldn’t do this once more as a result of it was simply an excessive amount of."

"On the identical time, it helped the efficiency," he continued. "I didn’t must act in any respect; I used to be a wreck. I used to be getting dizzy spells and sizzling flashes. I didn’t say something to anybody for some time as a result of I used to be afraid I may be actually unwell."

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In the meantime, Damon has mentioned that he had a extra pleasant expertise when he gained about 30 kilos to play real-life whistleblower Mark Whitacre in 2009's "The Informant!"

"It was very, very simple to achieve the burden. Very, very enjoyable," Damon instructed reporters in 2009, via NBC. "I simply mainly ate every little thing I may see for a couple of months."

Ashley Hume is an leisure author for Fox Information Digital. Story suggestions might be despatched to ashley.hume@fox.com and on Twitter: @ashleyhume