By
Emily Leibert,
a staff writer for The Cut.
She specializes in coverage at the intersection of gender and sports, the arts, and our relationship to our bodies.
Matt Damon got pretty buff in order to play the lead role in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. But you know who was even more jacked? His stuntwoman, Devyn Dalton. While Damon was appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, host Joshua Horowitz told him that his portrayal of title character Odysseus was strengthened by “the greatest bicep” he’d ever seen (outside of a Hemsworth brother, that is). Damon was flattered, noting that it was “almost 100 percent” his arms pictured in the film, but he gave additional credit where it was due: to his four-foot-five stand-in, Dalton.
