Samantha Morton on her electrifying performance as Circe in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’: ‘It felt like a rebirth’0

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• July 18, 2026

Samantha Morton doesn’t have much screen time in “The Odyssey,” but when she appears about halfway through the epic action, she takes over the movie. In an electrifying sequence that lasts approximately 10 minutes, Morton gives a searing, richly textured performance as Circe, a sorceress who transforms Odysseus’s men into pigs. In Homer’s epic, Circe