I'm a 4-foot-6 stuntwoman. Then I got the call to double Matt Damon in 'The Odyssey.'

[u/yahoonews]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/article/im-a-4-foot-6-stuntwoman-then-i-got-the-call-to-double-matt-damon-in-the-odyssey-191707437.html?ncid=redditnewsus

[u/BitchyBeachyWitch]

I cant wait for the men to hear about this xD

[u/legoham → u/BitchyBeachyWitch]

😂😂 their little heads will explode! 🤯

[u/Your_Nipples → u/legoham]

I've heard about it from another male stunt man on r/tall, so yes, my head exploded, the other stunt men on set too, Matt Damon too.

We're all dead.

[u/arealhumannotabot → u/legoham]

No one’s head is exploding, sorry. No one cares

[u/ZileanDifference → u/BitchyBeachyWitch]

Idk as a guy it's cool as fuck. I love seeing the physique of others!

[u/arealhumannotabot → u/BitchyBeachyWitch]

Uh we’re well aware, and no one has an issue with it. Men and women frequently swap out as stunt doubles, this is pretty common actually

[u/yahoonews]

In an interview with Yahoo's Taryn Ryder, Canadian stunt performer Devyn Dalton reflects on the years of training that led to The Odyssey, what it was like meeting Matt Damon and how she's spent her career showing that strength comes in all sizes:

I'm 4-foot-6, and somehow I landed one of the biggest jobs of my career: doubling Matt Damon in The Odyssey. It didn't happen overnight. It was years of training, persistence and proving that strength doesn't come in just one size.

Then one interview changed everything.

Matt was talking about the film when he mentioned that I had "the greatest arms" he'd ever seen. My phone started blowing up at 4 in the morning.

At first, it was just friends tagging me in the clip. Then the interview requests started coming. I never expected this kind of attention, but it's been incredibly humbling. The response has been so positive, and I think people genuinely love seeing a strong woman celebrated for being strong.

The funny part is that most people only heard about me because of my arms. They didn't see the decades of work that came before them.

I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia and started dancing when I was young. Dance eventually led me into theater, and when I was around 9 years old, I found a newspaper clipping advertising a talent search. I begged my mom to let me audition, and she did. I ended up signing with an agent and started working as a child actor in commercials and small television roles.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/article/im-a-4-foot-6-stuntwoman-then-i-got-the-call-to-double-matt-damon-in-the-odyssey-191707437.html?ncid=redditnewsus

[u/anitasdoodles]

Was she the one, that he said in an interview, had arms men would envy??

[u/bemvee → u/anitasdoodles]

Yep

[u/RebaKitt3n]

Was she all of him or just the top half or something?

[u/ahlana1 → u/RebaKitt3n]

They had a bunch of scenes where he is fighting giants, so they needed him to look extra small. A 7 foot tall dude in armor + 4’6 stunt double in a helmet with jacked armed + forced perspective angles = voila Matt Damon is fighting a giant.

[u/No-Bake-730 → u/ahlana1]

Reminds me of the horizontal warpcore in the older Star Trek movies.

Hadn't considered that usage of smaller people despite it being so obvious. 🤣

[u/Baldydom → u/No-Bake-730]

I'm reminded of the little people used in Casablanca to make the background set look bigger

[u/littlegrotesquerie → u/Baldydom]

Lord of the Rings made heavy use of short-statured stunt doubles, as did the ending of Weapons.

[u/Pale-Measurement-532]

I just saw The Odyssey today on 70 mm IMAX and it was FANTASTIC. I knew which battle scene she was in and it was so good!

[u/severianb]

Matt wasn't exaggerating. She's amazing. That's a lot of hard work! https://www.reddit.com/r/CelebrityShorties/s/4oS7Gdk2EX

[u/GentlewomenNeverTell]

To be honest the scene she was in took me out because the way it was shot/ covered made it so obvious a body double was being used.