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Despite their Batman connection, The Odyssey stars Anne Hathaway and Robert Pattinson connected more over bad tuna.
“It was mind-blowing how unappealing it looked,” Pattinson says.
The stars discuss Christopher Nolan’s film for EW’s Around the Table video series.
One would think that Anne Hathaway and Robert Pattinson would have a lot to talk about, given their separate experiences with Batman — Hathaway as Catwoman in Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Pattinson as the Caped Crusader himself in Matt Reeves‘ The Batman (2022). They did talk when they came to set for Nolan’s The Odyssey (in theaters this weekend), but they didn’t bond over DC so much.
“I feel like we bonded over dinner, over pizza…lots of pizza,” Hathaway tells Pattinson in Entertainment Weekly‘s installment of Around the Table with the cast of The Odyssey (on YouTube Friday).
“Didn’t you order something very strange?” Pattinson responds.
Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
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Hathaway calls it a “very normal” food order. “It was tuna,” she says, “but then what came out didn’t look like your normal tuna.”
The actress, also known for The Devil Wears Prada and The Princess Diaries, thought this “sweet and sour tuna” was “wonderful.” Pattinson not so much.
Their costar, Tom Holland, calls the tuna “very gray,” while Pattinson describes, “It was mind-blowing how unappealing it looked. I didn’t know I’d be eating it every day.”
On The Odyssey, shot across Europe at various locations, Matt Damon stars as Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s epic Greek poem. Upon sacking Troy and winning the Trojan War, his return trip home is swiftly derailed over his own hubris and a series of mythical dilemmas — man-eating Cyclops (Bill Irwin), an island of armored giants, sorceress Circe (Samantha Morton), a trip to the Underworld, and more.
Robert Pattinson as Batman in ‘The Batman’
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The story is framed around the issues back in Ithaca. It’s been years since Odysseus has been home, and Penelope (Hathaway), his wife, is now forced to keep dozens of gluttonous suitors at bay after invading her home. Holland plays Telemachus, the prodigal son on the hunt for information about the father he never knew. Pattinson plays Antinous, the chief suitor who tries to kill Telemachus and persuade Penelope’s hand in marriage.
“We didn’t really do bonding rituals,” Hathaway says in the Around the Table interview with Nolan and fellow stars Damon and John Leguizamo, the latter playing Odysseus’ loyal (and blind) swineherd Eumaeus. “I think we all just felt bonded by the fact that we’d been chosen and trusted and to be a part of this. I felt like that was what I needed, and then the bonding was the doing of the thing.”
The full episode of EW’s Around the Table with the cast of The Odyssey debuts tomorrow, alongside the theatrical release of the film.
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