Matt Damon lost his ‘high school’ weight for his role in the film ‘The Odyssey’

Matt Damon has revealed how he lost his “high school” weight to play the legendary Greek hero Odysseus in his highly anticipated film “The Odyssey.”

The 55-year-old actor reunited with director Christopher Nolan, with whom he previously collaborated on the hit films “Interstellar” and “Oppenheimer,” for the upcoming fantasy action film, which is an adaptation of Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey.”

During an appearance on Travis and Jason Kelce’s podcast “New heights” Damon opened up about how he achieved his body transformation after the retired Philadelphia Eagles player noted that the “Good Will Hunting” star was “getting pretty hitched” in viral photos from the film’s set.

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“Yeah, I was in really good shape,” Damon said. “I I lost a lot of weight“.

The Oscar winner explained that Nolan, 55, had a vision for how he wanted Damon to physically portray Ulysses.

“He said he wanted me thin but strong,” Damon said. “It’s a weird thing.”

Damon went on to say that he made a key change to his diet that helped him lose weight.

“I literally, just because of this other thing I did with my doctor, stopped eating gluten,” he said. “I was walking around 185 to 200 pounds. And I did this whole movie at 167 pounds.”

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“I haven’t been this light since high school,” Damon admitted. “So it was a lot of training and a very strict diet.”

Damon, who has previously undergone major body transformations for certain roles, noted that the help of a personal trainer is invaluable.

“The trainers say: ‘What do we do?’ “And they can kind of do it all,” he said. “It’s just about having a clear goal and setting it.”

Damon drew comparisons between his preparation for physically demanding roles and the Kelce brothers’ routines when they played in the NFL.

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“When I do this or when I do the ‘Jason Bourne’ movies or whatever, it almost feels like a season. I imagine what it feels like for you guys – when you’re getting ready,” Damon said. “It’s like just part of your day. It’s part of your workRIGHT? It’s like you get really routine about it and you kind of build your day around it all.”

“It’s a bit of the physical aspect of the preparation,” he added.

Damon also told Jason and Travis, 36, that he continued to follow a gluten-free diet after finishing production on “The Odyssey.”

“I’m done,” he said. “I’m completely gluten-free.”

“I found a gluten-free beer,” Damon said with a laugh. “It’s been so long since I ate gluten, I can’t say if it’s good or not. So that’s a good sign.”

“It works. It works,” Jason told him.

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Damon has previously spoken about radically transforming his body for roles. In the 1996 war drama “Courage Under Fire,” Damon lost between 40 and 50 pounds in about 100 days to play a Persian Gulf veteran dying of addiction and trauma.

The actor later stated that his extreme weight loss was dangerous and revealed that a doctor told him it “could have permanently shrunk my heart”.

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“I went too far,” Damon said via British Express release. “I got sick and I wouldn’t do it again because it was too much.”

“At the same time, it helped the performance,” he continued. “I didn’t need to act at all, I was a wreck. I had dizziness and hot flashes. I didn’t tell anyone for a while because I was afraid I was really sick.”

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Meanwhile, Damon said he had a more enjoyable experience when he gained about 30 pounds to play real-life whistleblower Mark Whitacre in 2009’s “The Informant”!

“It was very, very easy to gain weight. Very, very fun,” Damon told reporters in 2009. via BNC. “I basically ate everything I could see for a few months.”