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In this video, Tom Holland breaks down how he adapted his action style for Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’. Christopher Nolan and Matt Damon talk about the challenges of realistic sword fighting on set, while Holland reveals why he had to ditch his classic superhero landing pose for ancient weapons training.

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00:00I have to defer to the best among us at fake karate.
00:06You know, doing the Spider-Man stuff, I think if I jumped and landed in a deep squat in my
00:10armor,
00:11you probably would have been like, what are you doing?
00:13The swords and shields, like a really exciting new challenge, something I've never done before.
00:18I was really lucky that I had plenty of time to rehearse, so when we came to set,
00:23I don't think I've ever felt so prepared.
00:25Your style of shooting those scenes is really different to what I'm used to.
00:28You would have us run the entire fight all the way through.
00:33It just brings a rawness and an edginess and a dirtiness to the fight.
00:37It's not clean, and it feels really dangerous.
00:39What I was worried about, and it was really interesting to see how well he picked up that thing of
00:44that extra weight,
00:46that extra leverage, that extra two and a half feet is incredibly dangerous.
00:50I think the stakes are raised enormously when you get into these kind of weapons.
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