- Sean Avery, one of the NHL’s most notorious pests, plays Laodamas in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
- It’s his third Nolan film after Tenet and Oppenheimer
- Read below for what the ex-Ranger said about the “biggest movie ever made”
Sean Avery went from the most hated man in hockey to a Christopher Nolan movie.
That former NHL agitator now has a role in The Odyssey, Nolan’s epic take on Homer that landed in theaters July 17. Avery plays Laodamas, one of the crew members surrounding Matt Damon’s Odysseus.
This isn’t a one-off, either. Avery turned up in Nolan’s Tenet back in 2020 and again in Oppenheimer in 2023. Three films now, which makes the guy who once waved his stick in Martin Brodeur’s face a quiet regular in the most exclusive club in Hollywood.
Nolan’s film is a monster of a production. He reportedly spent around $250 million on it, shot the whole thing on IMAX film across several countries, and stacked the cast with Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, and Charlize Theron. The 173-minute film has already cleared $328 million at the box office.
Avery talked up the scale of the shoot while promoting the movie, and he didn’t undersell it:
“It is the biggest movie ever made. We filmed in five countries. No CGI, no green screen in the middle of the ocean.”
Watch the trailer for the film Avery landed a spot in:
Back on the ice, Avery spent parts of 10 seasons in the league with the Red Wings, Kings, Rangers, and Stars. He built his name on getting under people’s skin far more than on his goal totals. His screening act against Brodeur in the 2008 playoffs pushed the league to write a rule overnight, one that fans still call the Sean Avery Rule.
The Rangers, the team where Avery made the most noise, spent this offseason retooling their crease. Their old No. 16, meanwhile, keeps showing up on the biggest screens in the world.
He dug into that acting career in a recent interview with DailyFaceoff, breaking down how different life on a Nolan set feels from life in an NHL room. Not bad for a guy whose last real hockey headline was a rule named after him.
