Matt Damon says Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” was the hardest movie he’s ever done. “By far. Not even close.”

Matt Damon says Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” was the hardest movie he’s ever done. “By far. Not even close.”

Matt Damon has been doing physically punishing shoots for 30 years. The Bourne movies. “Ford v Ferrari.” “The Last Duel.” “The Martian,” where he played a man stranded alone on another planet. He spent 91 days as Odysseus on Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer, shot across Greece, Sicily, Iceland, Scotland, Morocco, Malta, Western Sahara, and the UK from February to August of last year. Nolan refused green screen. The production used a genui…