Matt Damon's Odyssey Giants Were Built With Height-Cast Stunt Doubles — His Own a Female Performer

• Matt Damon says Christopher Nolan shot the giants in "The Odyssey" in camera, not with visual effects.
• The stunt team cast doubles by height: performers near seven feet tall and others under five feet.
• Damon’s double in those shots was stuntwoman Devyn Dalton, who is 4’6" tall.

Posted: July 20, 2026

Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Matt Damon pulled back the curtain on how Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey staged its towering Laestrygonians in-camera rather than scaling actors digitally. The sequence was built on forced perspective, and the stunt department cast doubles by height to make the geometry read: performers around seven feet tall stood in as the giants looming over Odysseus, while doubles under five feet stood in for the principals within the same frames. Damon's own double for that setup, he said, was a female stunt performer — "who had the greatest arms I've ever seen."

For coordinators it's a clean case study in solving scale practically: the illusion lives on precise eyelines, matched movement between the tall and short doubles, and rig-and-camera placement rather than post work. It's also a reminder that height-specific and cross-gender doubling remain everyday tools when the shot demands a body that doesn't match the lead's frame.

That performer has since been identified as stuntwoman Devyn Dalton. At 4'6" and trained in boxing, Muay Thai, fencing, sword work and several dance disciplines, she was cast to hold Damon's physicality and eyeline inside the forced-perspective setup; her screen and game résumé runs from The Last of Us to the Planet of the Apes franchise. It's a clean illustration of how doubling works when the camera hides the face — build, movement and control decide the casting, not gender. Damon gave her the credit directly: “It was almost 100 percent my arms in the movie, but you gotta give it up where it’s due.”

Sources: The Hollywood Reporter — Matt Damon on his female stunt double · Variety — Matt Damon's female stunt double on The Odyssey · Upworthy — performer identified as Devyn Dalton

Learn more on IMDb: The Odyssey (2026) · Devyn Dalton