Robert Downey Jr. Takes the Interviewer's Chair for The Odyssey
Robert Downey Jr. moved from the stage to the interviewer's chair for The Odyssey, and The Hollywood Reporter has released exclusive footage of the full conversation.
Downey moderated a Q&A with director Christopher Nolan, producer Emma Thomas and actor Matt Damon after a 70mm IMAX screening at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Seventy-millimetre film is a wide, high-detail print format, and IMAX is a large-screen system, so the screening was built around the film's physical format as well as its story.
The evening did not stop there. A 75-minute film called Behind the Scenes of The Odyssey, about how the movie was made, had its world premiere on the Universal lot. Nolan gave opening remarks before the film began.
Damon then moderated a Q&A with the crew members who helped build the film. They included Thomas, editor Jennifer Lame, costume designer Ellen Mirojnick, visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson and composer Ludwig Göransson, along with several others from the production's departments.
The events spread well beyond Los Angeles. At the BFI IMAX in London, members of the Academy and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts watched the film, then took part in a Q&A with Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland. Edith Bowman moderated that session.
At the Academy Museum's Ted Mann Theater, Göransson, the musician James Blake and the rapper Travis Scott talked about their work on the end-credits track. That audience was made up of members of the Society of Composers and Lyricists.
Nolan also appeared at Universal CityWalk Hollywood, where Guillermo del Toro interviewed him and Andrew Jackson after a screening for members of the Visual Effects Society. Each event brought a different group of people into the room, from film-makers and critics to the craftspeople behind the sound and images.
For anyone who has ever wondered who shapes a film's music, costumes or visual effects, the list of names offers a rare look. The footage from Downey's conversation is the first public window into that evening, and the behind-the-scenes film gives a longer view of the work itself.
