Over the past a number of months, Christopher Nolan has assembled an in depth and spectacular forged of actors for his new film The Odyssey. Whereas we anxiously watch for Tom Holland and Zendaya to reunite on the large display (and for Matt Damon to finally tame that wild beard), we have been listening to trickles about what to anticipate from the upcoming film. Alexander and the Horrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Dangerous Highway Journey’s Jesse Garcia has landed a task within the upcoming film launch, and shared with me a tidbit about what engaged on a Nolan set is like. I’ll say, I used to be not dissatisfied.
When speaking with Garcia about his pleasant new Disney+ film, Alexander and the Horrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Dangerous Highway Journey, we took a little bit of a detour to speak about all issues Nolan. The actor instructed me the film is “enormous” in so some ways, additionally teasing the “spectacle” of the upcoming movie.
It is epic on all elements. It is enormous. There’s gonna be loads of stuff on this film that hasn’t been captured on movie earlier than. So it is gonna be a spectacle.
Clearly, a Nolan movie is often an enormous finances affair, however Garcia has appeared in main movies earlier than, together with MCU movies. Even these seemingly dwarfed what’s been happening on the set of The Odyssey, which has me intrigued.
I have been on large film units earlier than, however this – it is simply big. It is simply big and likewise type of small and intimate on the identical time. It is a very distinctive expertise.
His repetitive use of the phrase “big” truthfully makes me surprise what it means for this set in comparison with different large finances movies. Proper now, many of the forged for the most recent Nolan movie have landed undisclosed roles, so we did not get something extra particular, and it is smart at this level to solely be getting tidbits concerning scale. However my curiosity remains to be piqued.
Whereas Christopher Nolan’s films have had a following for a while, he actually modified the sport with Oppenheimer. The movie received a number of 2024 Academy Awards, together with Finest Image, earned practically a billion {dollars} on the field workplace, had an unimaginable Oppenheimer forged, and basically was one/half of the summer time field workplace when it launched on the identical day as Barbie – the basic ‘Barbenheimer.’
In fact, if Nolan needed to up the stakes for his subsequent movie, he’d want to usher in the large weapons and certainly flip one of the crucial epic tales of all time – The Odyssey – into his subsequent main piece of artwork, alongside unimaginable IMAX cameras.
However earlier than you’ll be able to catch Garcia in The Odyssey, you’ll be able to see him as Frank Garcia in Alexander and the Horrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Dangerous Highway Journey alongside Eva Longoria. He really labored with the actress earlier than within the biographical movie, Flamin’ Sizzling.
The film is obtainable to stream proper now with a Disney+ subscription. Whereas it is actually not as momentous as one thing like Homer’s The Odyssey, it is a beautiful film about household and Latino tradition that I completely adore.
It is a incredible comedy to get you prepared for one thing on this epic of a scale. And there is additionally loads of time to observe it, too, as filming for The Odyssey is at the moment underway, with a set launch date of July 17, 2026. Will probably be a while earlier than we see Garcia within the new film – till then, I will get pleasure from him as the daddy determine that made me snicker.