{"id":3811,"date":"2026-07-17T18:37:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2026-07-17T18:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:37:41","slug":"how-samantha-morton-pulled-off-her-wild-the-odyssey-performance-as-circe-i-wanted-to-possess-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811","title":{"rendered":"How Samantha Morton Pulled Off Her Wild \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Performance as Circe: \u201cI Wanted to Possess It\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n<\/p>\n
\n

\n[This story contains spoilers for Christopher Nolan\u2018s The Odyssey<\/em>.<\/strong>]<\/p>\n

\n\tFor a film stacked with A-listers like Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya and Tom Holland, one actor took up a surprising chunk of The Odyssey<\/em>\u2019s pre-release buzz: Samantha Morton. This was due in large part to director Christopher Nolan himself. \u201cThere are no limitations on her performance,\u201d the Oscar-winning filmmaker told The Los Angeles Times<\/em> earlier this month. \u201cAfter one of her takes, the crew gave her a great round of applause\u2026. The last time that had happened [in one of my movies] was with Heath Ledger on The Dark Knight.<\/em>\u201d You can\u2019t hype up a performance much more than that.<\/p>\n

Read more West Hollywood Flooding Forces Road Closures, Business Shutdowns Around Sunset Strip<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tFortunately, Morton lives up to it. In a barnburning sequence as Circe, the witch goddess from Aeaea, the actress all but transforms the energy of the entire, massive film. Circe welcomes the survivors among Odysseus\u2019s men who have washed up on a mysterious beach and seek refuge. Sensing their feral desperation, she promptly turns them all into pigs \u2014 a sequence achieved by Nolan with dazzling practicality. It\u2019s only after Odysseus (Damon) himself kills a man disguised as a deer that he convinces her to change them back. She then, in a monologue delivered with singular verve by Morton, lays out the dangerous path for him to return to Ithaca and reunite with his family.<\/p>\n

\n\tMorton, a British native who\u2019s been acting since age 12, has pulled off a dynamic and varied career over three-plus decades, earning Oscar noms for her supporting role in Sweet and Lowdown <\/em>and lead turn in In America<\/em>. More recently, she\u2019s balanced title roles in TV projects like The Serpent Queen<\/em> with smaller roles on the big screen, taking charge of awards contenders like The Whale <\/em>and She Said <\/em>with just a few minutes to make her presence count. But The Odyssey <\/em>feels different \u2014 the moment to recognize the power of an actor who\u2019s made a habit of this kind of scene-stealing work. Indeed, watching the way Nolan captures Circe\u2019s mystical sequence would be unforgettable in its own right. That Morton still manages to stand out to the degree that she does says it all.<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow, she speaks with The Hollywood Reporter <\/em>about how her career led her to such a moment with The Odyssey<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\nLet\u2019s start with how you came to play Circe. What was your path to getting the part?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m very lucky. I\u2019ve been acting since I was 12, but I\u2019ve been with my agents really since I was 19 \u2014 and I\u2019m 49, so it\u2019s a very long time. They\u2019re always rooting for me and suggesting me to casting directors for things. Maybe they\u2019d said something to John Papsidera. It\u2019s every actor\u2019s dream to work with Christopher Nolan or to get an opportunity to meet him. I don\u2019t know what happened behind the scenes, but I know that I got a phone call to say that \u201cChristopher Nolan would like to meet you,\u201d and I cried. I was like, \u201cWow, really?\u201d I didn\u2019t even know what the project was when I met him, so it was all a surprise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tI also didn\u2019t know the source material. I didn\u2019t know The Odyssey<\/em>. I hadn\u2019t read it in school because of being a child actor; I didn\u2019t go to school, or I\u2019d missed my schooling really from 12 years old. Obviously I was familiar with the title, and I\u2019d seen an episode of The Simpsons<\/em> where they did a parody on The<\/em> Odyssey<\/em>. But the script blew me away and I was just so moved at how contemporary it felt. I had my interpretation of Circe, and then speaking to Chris, hoping that that was going to work, I didn\u2019t know that I was going to get the part. When I got the role, I was just so excited to deliver for Chris and [producer] Emma [Thomas] to inhabit what my instinct was.<\/p>\n

\nHow would you describe that interpretation? I\u2019m curious how you conceive of this character, this scene, when he first presents you with the role, and how it then evolves once you start digging in.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI did a bit of research into the source material and I bought the Madeline Miller book [Circe<\/em>]. But I opened that book and then something just stopped me from reading it. The thing about me and my work is, my relationship to a movie script or a play or a TV episode or whatever I\u2019m doing \u2014 that\u2019s my special thing. Research is incredibly important for me, but it also depends on who I\u2019m playing. Years ago, I was about 19 years old and I was playing Jane Eyre. It was a big ITV production. It was a TV movie, but they\u2019d spent a lot of money on it. I remember literally carrying the book around with me like the Bible, with passages highlighted and all my notes, and talking to the person who adapted it and going, \u201cWhy isn\u2019t this there? This doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d I was almost in conflict with the script, which was very good, because I had issues with the choices. I vowed to myself moving forward that, while you have to do your research, you have to know what you\u2019re doing, I didn\u2019t want to be bogged down by everybody else\u2019s interpretation, view, opinion, anything.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHere I just was very old-fashioned. I went, \u201cI\u2019m making this movie, and this is the character here on this page. This is what I have.\u201d My instinct was I felt that she was incredibly contemporary. I could identify with her. She felt like my sister, my mother, my gran, my aunt, my neighbor. She felt very real and very condensed. I talk about the essential will of Circe. It\u2019s absolutely extraordinary what Chris has done with all of the women in the film. She just feels so whole, so fully realized yet you\u2019re not there with her for an incredibly long amount of time. In that short timeframe, there\u2019s a lot to achieve, I think. But it doesn\u2019t feel rushed. It doesn\u2019t feel forced. It feels that she\u2019s every woman. She\u2019s all of us. I just really connected with that. I thought that I would bring, for want of a better word, myself into it. I just wanted to own it. I wanted to possess it and own it and be it.<\/p>\n

\nThere\u2019s a lot to this scene and it has a big place in this film. What did that look like for you internally to take charge, as you say, on such an epic production?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI think it\u2019s how I approach life. I grew up in the foster-care system, children\u2019s homes, and I was never really welcome in normal society because we were considered scum. People didn\u2019t really understand our stories, but nonetheless, we were labeled scum. I had to fight just to have a voice or to be relevant. A lot of kids are written off in that way. When I was very little, in order to just be in a room with other people that were maybe better-educated or came from a normal family, I always used to think: \u201cI have a right to be here. I\u2019m a human being. I have a right to be here. We\u2019re all just as important as each other.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nI imagine that\u2019s been a theme across your career.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tWhen I got my first play at the Royal Court, I would\u2019ve been 16 years old. People would say, \u201cAre you nervous?\u201d And I said, \u201cNo, why?\u201d I said, \u201cWell, if it doesn\u2019t work out, it doesn\u2019t matter. I\u2019ve had a go.\u201d Obviously, I\u2019m nervous about, in a healthy way, the adrenaline of what I\u2019m doing or not letting anybody else down and delivering the goods. But ultimately I\u2019ve got nothing to lose. I\u2019ve got everything to give and nothing to lose. When I arrived on the Minority Report <\/em>film set, there\u2019s Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg, and yes, they\u2019re extraordinary human beings with what they\u2019ve achieved in their careers \u2014 but they\u2019re people and we\u2019re all there to do a job. You have to just park all of that outside reality stuff at the door, walk in and do the job. The best job we possibly can. I\u2019ve always been like that. So I didn\u2019t get intimidated by the fact it was a Christopher Nolan movie, or that there was money being spent, or there was Matt Damon, because we\u2019re all human beings and we\u2019re all lucky to be making movies, quite frankly.<\/p>\n

\nHow many days did you actually shoot that sequence in <\/strong>The Odyssey<\/em><\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt wasn\u2019t very long. Or it wasn\u2019t long enough for me! I just didn\u2019t want to leave. I was thinking, \u201cCould I be an extra? Could I help the sound department? Be a caterer?\u201d I think I was there for about 10 days, more or less. It wasn\u2019t that I didn\u2019t have long enough to perform. It was just over very quickly \u2014 I was like, \u201cOh no, I\u2019m so sad.\u201d (Laughs.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

\nWhat excited you about the actual filming of it, knowing how otherworldly the scene gets?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThe entire script was very complex, but equally had an incredible amount of heart. It felt like a page turner. I didn\u2019t feel lost in it, which is saying something considering the amount of characters and what was going on. I didn\u2019t have any preconceived ideas about what they were going to do. I was just excited about what they were going to do and how they were going to do it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read more \u20183 Weeks After\u2019 Review: A High-School Field Trip Goes Off the Rails in a Skillful but Sadistic Serbian Shocker<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tMy stepdad had a dodgy video store, which he shouldn\u2019t have had, but it was a lot of horror that wasn\u2019t allowed to be released in England. I grew up watching a lot of horror and I loved it. I absolutely loved it. Things like The Evil Dead<\/em>. And equally as a child, loving things like The NeverEnding Story<\/em> or The Dark Crystal<\/em> \u2014 Jim Henson and puppetry and wanting to be either a princess or a baddie. Growing up, I wanted to be Darth Vader\u2026. So when I read the script, I was just really excited about how we were going to do that and what I was able to contribute. I loved the magic of it all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nIt\u2019s an amazing sequence to watch, visually. I understand Circe turning the men into pigs was accomplished practically. How did you experience that?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t know because I was just in the moment all the time. Chris and Emma gave me a lot of prep, really kind and considerate. What do you need? Any questions? Prep is everything. Asking all the questions before, nothing being a surprise, making sure that you can hit the ground running. Filmmaking is extraordinary in regards to the coming together of lots of different elements and hoping it works. Sometimes it doesn\u2019t work and you hope it does. In this instance, I felt it worked. Yeah. I was just kind of in Circe mode. No disrespect to anybody, but I wasn\u2019t worrying or overthinking about what was going on around me. I just wanted to get it right within Circe.<\/p>\n

\nIt\u2019s interesting though, because there is obviously a bizarre, mystical thing happening within that scene \u2014 that you can stay so centered where that\u2019s not even as much of a focus for you surprises me.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThat scene in particular, I felt that I needed to almost forget the fact I was on a film set and forget the fact that I was working with the practicalities of special effects and become one with it. I suppose like a puppeteer. Look at War Horse<\/em>, and I was talking about Dark Crystal <\/em>and NeverEnding Story<\/em>, people inhabiting characters. For me, it was becoming one with, for lack of a better word, Circe\u2019s creations. They were of her, part of her, and it was an extension of her mind. I was just in the zone.<\/p>\n

\nDid you surprise yourself, then, in how you approached it? Anything specifically that you recall?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI didn\u2019t mean to hum. I didn\u2019t think I was going to hum. (Laughs<\/em>.) Or sing or whatever I did. That surprised me. I didn\u2019t know that was going to happen. But then again, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen ever<\/em>. I have an idea in my head. It\u2019s like when we read a book that we love and we see the characters and they just feel so personal. Or like when you\u2019re trying to remember a dream that was so vivid at the time and you can\u2019t quite remember it, but you remember enough to go, \u201cAnd this happened and that happened.\u201d If you are asked to go into any detail, was there color? Can you smell it? What was the eye-color of whoever you were talking about? As an actor, I always try to be as in the moment as I possibly can be without being disrespectful to others. You have to always have one ear out for whatever\u2019s happening technically on the set. You can\u2019t be completely selfish that you\u2019re gone and it\u2019s all about you. It\u2019s a collaboration as well. But that did make me go, \u201cOh, I don\u2019t remember that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nWhen you watched it, you mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYeah, I\u2019d been told about it, but I\u2019d forgotten it. You just move forward in life, don\u2019t you? The filmmakers are living with it every day in the edit, or if you\u2019ve written something and you\u2019re directing it and making it. But it\u2019s a very different world as an actor.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s the last role I\u2019ve done, though. I haven\u2019t done anything since The Odyssey<\/em>. I\u2019ve been writing a screenplay and I make music, so I\u2019ve been in my music world. It\u2019s very lovely to revisit it.<\/p>\n

\nIt sounds like you were a good fit, though, for the way Nolan likes to work: He\u2019s very involved with his actors in advance of filming, and then he lets them run.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tAbsolutely. But at the same time, the safety and the respect and the trust \u2014 there was never a note that I got where I didn\u2019t believe it. He was with me, totally with me in those scenes. Oftentimes, even brilliant directors can give you a note and you\u2019re like, \u201cReally? Oh, okay.\u201d\u00a0 You do it and you go, \u201cOh, that didn\u2019t feel right,\u201d but you do it because it\u2019s your job and you hope that you\u2019re making the director happy. But every single note, every single bit of guidance felt completely poignant and relevant and right and made me better. If you\u2019re working with somebody brilliant, it makes you better. If you trust them and let them guide you and let them be brilliant at what they do, we all get better.<\/p>\n

\nI think of you as an actor who shows what can be done in a short amount of time on screen. A few years ago, both She Said<\/em> and The Whale<\/em> came out, and you had single scenes in both of these films that were so explosive, and that rejiggered the whole chemistry of the film. That\u2019s a unique challenge for any actor that you\u2019ve been given a few times.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s a really lovely way of putting it. I think that I\u2019m reliable, maybe? They know I\u2019m good for it. I\u2019ll give it 150 percent, but also I\u2019m really aware it\u2019s not about me. Maybe that kind of sense of church and family and us all being together in one \u2014 that I don\u2019t bring any baggage, I suppose. I just turn up with a little bag and get on with it and then go away. I oftentimes don\u2019t get involved in the other stuff. I just love acting. If I\u2019m lucky enough to play Catherine de\u2019 Medici as the lead in The Serpent Queen<\/em>, or in Harlots<\/em>, and then Anemone <\/em>with Daniel Day Lewis\u2019 first screenplay? I think I\u2019m a good egg. I\u2019ll turn up, do the work and be happy with that, thank you. <\/p>\n

\nChris has been highlighting your performance quite a bit, in talking about <\/strong>The Odyssey<\/em><\/strong>. I just wonder how that lands for you as someone who has been doing this for so much of her life, to be getting that spotlight in the lead-up to release.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tEmotional. I\u2019ve had ups and downs in my career \u2014 you work for a bit and then you\u2019re not working for a bit. You are criticized for your physicality. It\u2019s a tricky game. Even meeting him was enough; everything else is very special, very personal. It validates the fact that I\u2019m good at what I do and I care. I\u2019m very grateful and I take it very seriously.<\/p>\n

Read more Free Trials? Content Experiments? Hiding Data? Netflix Is Turning Back the Clock<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The two-time Oscar nominee all but stills the massive film in a scene that reflects what she's been doing her whole career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[117,656,2678,2679,90,119,2680,91],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-matt-damon","tag-samantha-morton","tag-she-said","tag-steven-spielberg","tag-the-odyssey","tag-the-whale","tag-tom-cruise"],"yoast_head":"\nHow Samantha Morton Pulled Off Her Wild \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Performance as Circe: \u201cI Wanted to Possess It\u201d - US Property Moves<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Samantha Morton Pulled Off Her Wild \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Performance as Circe: \u201cI Wanted to Possess It\u201d - US Property Moves\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The two-time Oscar nominee all but stills the massive film in a scene that reflects what she's been doing her whole career.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"US Property Moves\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-07-17T18:37:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"15 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=3811#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=3811\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f6dcb1ef8e64fe67b72b772b81aa822c\"},\"headline\":\"How Samantha Morton Pulled Off Her Wild \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Performance as Circe: \u201cI Wanted to Possess It\u201d\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-17T18:37:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=3811\"},\"wordCount\":2954,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=3811#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/8701fe6958b84885f8a15b092feca569.webp\",\"keywords\":[\"Christopher Nolan\",\"Matt Damon\",\"Samantha Morton\",\"She Said\",\"Steven Spielberg\",\"The Odyssey\",\"The Whale\",\"Tom Cruise\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Interesting\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=3811#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=3811\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=3811\",\"name\":\"How Samantha Morton Pulled Off Her Wild \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Performance as Circe: \u201cI Wanted to Possess It\u201d - US Property Moves\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=3811#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=3811#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/8701fe6958b84885f8a15b092feca569.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-17T18:37:41+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f6dcb1ef8e64fe67b72b772b81aa822c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=3811#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=3811\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=3811#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/8701fe6958b84885f8a15b092feca569.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/8701fe6958b84885f8a15b092feca569.webp\",\"width\":1440,\"height\":810},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?p=3811#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"How Samantha Morton Pulled Off Her Wild \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Performance as Circe: \u201cI Wanted to Possess It\u201d\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"US Property Moves\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f6dcb1ef8e64fe67b72b772b81aa822c\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uspropertymoves.com\\\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"How Samantha Morton Pulled Off Her Wild \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Performance as Circe: \u201cI Wanted to Possess It\u201d - US Property Moves","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"How Samantha Morton Pulled Off Her Wild \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Performance as Circe: \u201cI Wanted to Possess It\u201d - US Property Moves","og_description":"The two-time Oscar nominee all but stills the massive film in a scene that reflects what she's been doing her whole career.","og_url":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811","og_site_name":"US Property Moves","article_published_time":"2026-07-17T18:37:41+00:00","author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"15 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f6dcb1ef8e64fe67b72b772b81aa822c"},"headline":"How Samantha Morton Pulled Off Her Wild \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Performance as Circe: \u201cI Wanted to Possess It\u201d","datePublished":"2026-07-17T18:37:41+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811"},"wordCount":2954,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8701fe6958b84885f8a15b092feca569.webp","keywords":["Christopher Nolan","Matt Damon","Samantha Morton","She Said","Steven Spielberg","The Odyssey","The Whale","Tom Cruise"],"articleSection":["Interesting"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811","url":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811","name":"How Samantha Morton Pulled Off Her Wild \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Performance as Circe: \u201cI Wanted to Possess It\u201d - US Property Moves","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8701fe6958b84885f8a15b092feca569.webp","datePublished":"2026-07-17T18:37:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f6dcb1ef8e64fe67b72b772b81aa822c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8701fe6958b84885f8a15b092feca569.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8701fe6958b84885f8a15b092feca569.webp","width":1440,"height":810},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3811#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"How Samantha Morton Pulled Off Her Wild \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Performance as Circe: \u201cI Wanted to Possess It\u201d"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/","name":"US Property Moves","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f6dcb1ef8e64fe67b72b772b81aa822c","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/uspropertymoves.com"],"url":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}