IMAX's high resolution leaves nowhere for an actor to hide, so performing for IMAX requires a more subtle, restrained acting style than stage or ordinary screen acting.

4:51really promotes a sort of more subtle version of performance because it can very quickly become too much. So for me, I really enjoyed trying to find that that biting point of where you were working perfectly with the camera. >> Yeah. I mean, it seemed to me that it is really true to the spirit of Homer. You have all the adventures I said, you've got all the kind of the

5:13complexity of the time and the narrative and everything like that. And it looks beautiful. But there are kind of hints of some of Christopher Nolan's earlier films in the looks. But I was thinking about your character. So Telemachus is 20 years old. He's kind of young man. >> Mhm. >> Um his father has never been there. So he's grown up surrounded by these older men who are who are seeking the hand of

5:37his mother. And it's quite tough for him. >> Mhm. >> And it's like that is a very ancient Greek situation. But it's also the kind of thing that you might recognize from a kind of high-school movie in which our hero is being menaced by the jocks. Right. And there was quite a lot of that. You know, you get kind of dumped on your back by the guy who you know,

5:56because you know the logic of the film. And it's not just Homeric, it's also from, you know, the the the grammar of high-school movies and even superhero movies. But our hero is going to come good and you are ultimately going to become the hero. But do you think that was something that you were aware of as you were playing that role, that there were echoes perhaps of of of that kind

6:17of logic as well as of Homer. >> Yeah, I mean so much of what is in Homer's work has influenced storytelling in every way. You know, I think that, you know, there's probably not a big movie that comes out that on an epic scale that has not got some sort of or does not owe some sort of respect to >> Epics coming home. >> Yeah, exactly. But then something I'd

6:41love to touch on that you brought up and and this is only my interpretation. I haven't actually spoken to Chris about this. To me, the way I see the film is that Telemachus and Penelope represent the reality of the story. >> Yeah. >> And Odysseus' side of the story, Matt's side of the story, represents the myth. >> Yeah. >> And this humongous game of telephone that has been played with this text, you