“I stopped eating gluten”: Matt Damon details the intense diet and training that helped him drop 30 pounds for “The Odyssey”

Matt Damon, star of the upcoming Christopher Nolan adaptation of The Odyssey, recently revealed how he dropped all that weight. Photos from the set published last year showed the actor with bulging arms and visible abs in one of the more extreme examples of body transformation for a role.

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Damon's "Odyssey" weight loss

After landing the role of Odysseus in Nolan's The Odyssey, Damon knew he had some work to do to portray the king of Ithaca from Homer's epic.