Devyn Dalton, the Stunt Performer on “The Odyssey” Poster, Finally Gets to Describe the Job Herself

• Stuntwoman Devyn Dalton doubled Matt Damon on Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey."
• She is the performer on the film's poster, which almost never happens for a stunt double.
• In a new radio interview she describes the physical training the job took.

Posted: October 23, 2026

Devyn Dalton went into a Chicago studio this week and talked, in her own voice, about work that is normally described by someone else. Dalton doubled Matt Damon inside the forced-perspective setups Nolan used to stage the Laestrygonians in camera: the stunt department cast by height rather than by gender, putting performers near seven feet opposite doubles under five feet so the geometry read without post work. At 4'6", with boxing, Muay Thai, fencing and sword training behind her, Dalton held Damon's physicality and eyeline inside that frame.

What makes the interview worth a coordinator's time is the second half of the job. Dalton is the figure on the theatrical poster — a stunt performer, in character, carrying the campaign image for a tentpole. Doubles are routinely written out of the marketing even when their frame is what the audience remembers, and this is a rare case running the other way. She spends the segment on the conditioning behind the work and on moving a character's intent through a body that is not the lead's, which is the whole skill in cross-cast doubling: the camera hides the face, so build, control and movement have to do the acting.

Source: WGN Radio 720 — Stuntwoman Devyn Dalton talks about being Matt Damon’s stunt double in The Odyssey

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