An ex-NHLer's 'Odyssey': How Sean Avery became a go-to Christopher Nolan cast member

Cast as the muscular, helmet-clad Laodamas alongside Matt Damon's Odysseus, Avery continues an unlikely post-hockey pivot to Hollywood.

Christopher Nolan is not exactly famous for handing out compliments. His sets run with a discipline that borders on the monastic, and by his cast's telling, the word "perfect" crosses his lips roughly once a decade. Matt Damon, who by his own account logged some of the most demanding months of his career shooting "The

Matt Damon's Odysseus dramatizes a condition clinicians call moral injury — distinct from PTSD — that still shows up in veterans today.