Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey may be a 3,000-year-old epic reframed for the modern screen, but one brief moment of nudity became the summer's most talked-about mystery. As the blockbuster sailed toward box office success, audiences were left with the same burning question: Who was that guy?

The Scene That Broke the Internet

The moment in question arrives early in the film, on the island of the witch Circe. While Odysseus hunts for deer, he strikes a fawn with his bow and arrow, only to approach it and discover something shocking: the animal has transformed into a naked human man, lying facedown in the grass. It's meant to signal the island's dark magic and the danger ahead. But for much of the audience, it became something else entirely-a moment of pure thirst that overshadowed the plot.

The nudity is brief and not particularly graphic, but it was enough. Social media erupted with screenshots, theories, and an increasingly frantic search for the actor's identity. Reddit threads multiplied. Twitter (now X) users launched full investigations. The lack of credits, no visible face in the shot, and no prior prominence made the hunt particularly challenging.

Gay Twitter's current mission is to find the actor that played the deer in the odyssey.
X user @camellott_

The Search and the Joke Theory That Stuck

As days passed without an answer, the internet's confusion gave way to humor. One particularly viral theory held that the butt belonged to Connor Storrie, the star of the gay film Heated Rivalry, making a secret cameo under a false name. The joke felt plausible enough-who better to pull off an unexpected nude scene?-and the longer the mystery lasted, the more people seemed to half-believe it. Others pointed to the actor's undeniable assets as a clue in itself; few in Hollywood had comparable credentials for the part.

Then, weeks into the saga, Rachowiecki himself posted to Instagram with the goods: a selfie with his body double, a photo of his trailer door labeled

Source: Queerty

Poster via The Movie Database (TMDB)

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