Not only is Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey one of the most successful movies of the year, but it has marked a pivotal point in star Tom Holland's career, who says he now has a new level of confidence and ambition to take on even bigger projects.

"I've been an admirer of Chris since I can remember, so having the opportunity to work with him and have his approval and sit in his house and watch his movie and to get a pat on the back was just the perfect way for me to start whatever it is I'm doing next," said Holland at a recent The Odyssey Q&A in London, shared online by Twitter user @Woow_Lucas. "It's confidence and ambition to see what else is out there for me."

The actor, who plays Odysseus' son Telemachus in the epic, added, "He's given me a level of confidence as an actor that I don't think I had before, and I'm very grateful that that is something I can take away from this. I think going into my next project with this sense of achievement is newfound confidence in what I think I can do."

The movie adapts Homer's ancient Greek poem of the same name, following Matt Damon as King of Ithaca Odysseus on his perilous decade-long journey home after the Trojan War. Back in Ithaca, Holland's Telemachus fights off his mother's suitors who are eyeing up his father's throne. But when he is visited by a strange traveller who tells him that his father is alive, Telemachus sets in motion a plan for a safe reinstatement.

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