The Emmy-nominated actor debuted in the Nolan-verse with a supporting role in 2020’s Tenet — but this one feels different. I'm aware of how rare something like this is in anyone's career, and I'm just soaking it all in as much as I can.” Clearly Nolan was taken enough with Patel to circle back to him with an offer for The Odyssey. “I didn't think I'd gotten to the point where he could offer me a role,” Patel admits. We shot the movie fairly chronologically, so it was just growing and growing and growing and growing, and by the end, it was an absolute mess.