EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Garcia (The Mom, Flamin’ Sizzling) and Will Yun Lee (San Andreas, The Good Physician) have joined the solid of Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey from Common, sources near manufacturing inform Deadline. Their roles are below wraps.
Nolan’s mythic motion epic, shot with new Imax cameras, relies on the traditional Greek poem by Homer which follows Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and his perilous journey house after the Trojan Battle. The basic explores themes of heroism, loyalty, crafty and the battle towards divine will. The story consists of iconic tales like Odysseus’ encounters with the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens and the witch-goddess Circe, culminating in a reunion together with his spouse Penelope.
The solid is led by Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Benny Safdie and Charlize Theron. The ensemble additionally consists of Himesh Patel, Elliot Web page, Invoice Irwin and Samantha Morton.
As Deadline has beforehand reported, the movie can be screened in Imax when it hits cinemas in all places on July 17, 2026; that third weekend of July is an effective luck date for Nolan the place he’s launched such hits as Darkish Knight, Dunkirk, Oppenheimer amongst different titles.
Garcia will subsequent be seen within the Disney+ characteristic Alexander and the Horrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Unhealthy Highway Tri primarily based on the ebook sequence by Judith Viorst. The movie which additionally stars Eva Longoria, premieres on March 28. He at present stars within the Netflix characteristic The Mom reverse Jennifer Lopez. Latest credit additionally embrace the Village Roadshow characteristic, Homicide Metropolis, the Amy Redford movie, Roost reverse Summer season Phoenix, Michael Bay’s Ambulance and the Searchlight movie Flamin’ Sizzling.
His TV credit embrace roles in Netflix’s Narcos, Sons of Anarchy,The Defend for FX and FOX’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Garcia is greatest identified for starring within the award-winning movie Quinceañera, written and directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer with Todd Haynes serving as government producer. He’s repped by Mosaic, Impartial Artist Group, and lawyer Mark Wetzstein.
Lee is a Korean American actor and Taekwondo Grasp who has taken on James Bond (Die One other Day) and gone claw-to-claw with an X-Males (The Wolverine). He just lately wrapped the seventh and remaining season of the ABC TV sequence, The Good Physician as sequence common ‘Dr. Alex Park’ and lived many lives as ‘Takeshi Kovacs’ on Netflix’s Altered Carbon. Extra small display screen credit embrace lead and recurring roles in HBO’s True Blood, Hawaii 5-0 for CBS, USA Community’s Falling Water and the Sky One motion thriller Strike Again.
For the massive display screen, he labored reverse Dwayne Johnson in Rampage (2018) and San Andreas (2015) and Melissa McCarthy and Jude Legislation in Spy (2015). Lee can also be a accomplice within the worldwide manufacturing firm Seoul Avenue. He’s repped by Surprise Avenue and Impartial Artists Group.
