Folks baffled to seek out out the place they actually know The Odyssey actor from
The movie on everyone’s lips proper now, The Odyssey, unleashes one of the shocking casting decisions in an extended whereas.
Now enjoying in cinemas, Oscar-winning writer-director Christopher Nolan has unquestionably received the warfare of the summer season blockbusters (sorry, Steven Spielberg) together with his adaptation of Homer’s epic poem.
On the time of writing, The Odyssey‘s field workplace receipts quantity to nearly $350 million (£262m) after only one week of worldwide screenings, so there is a sturdy likeliness that it will attain a billion throughout the theatrical window.
Starring Matt Damon because the King of Ithaca, Odysseus, this sprawling fantasy journey chronicles his 10-year journey residence after masterminding the autumn of Troy.
On his quest again to Ithaca, the place spouse Penelope (performed by Anne Hathaway) and son Telemachus (Tom Holland) desperately await his presence, Odysseus and his comrades encounter all method of mystical and legendary foes, together with a man-eating Cyclops, the witch Circe, Calypso the nymph and ferocious Laestrygonians.
Holding down the fort together with his household is a blind character named Eumaeus too, dropped at life by John Leguizamo.
Having been mesmerised by all 173 minutes of the factor, followers are actually realising the place they recognise scene-stealer Leguizamo from.
One tweet read: “The Odyssey was f**king wonderful sure however there was one scene the place John Leguizamo yelled one thing and all I heard was Sid from Ice Age and I needed to cease myself from laughing onerous as f**okay within the theater.”
In the meantime, one other viewer was left shocked by the revelation, writing: “John Leguizamo is Sid the sloth?? My life simply modified.”
Yep, the man who gave us a Eumaeus filled with soul is similar man who voiced the speech-impeded floor sloth Sid throughout a complete raft of animated Ice Age movies.
Leguizamo’s different notable credit embody Violent Evening, Romeo + Juliet, The Taking place, Bloodline, The Lincoln Lawyer, Assault on Precinct 13 and subsequent yr’s The Exorcist: Martyrs.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the 66-year-old veteran revealed that he could not see on the set of Nolan’s newest venture, because of the eyeball-clouding lenses he had fitted.
“Not having the ability to see for 12 to 14 hours a day, like I could not see my cellphone, I could not learn, I could not name,” he stated.
“My different eye wasn’t clear both. I couldn’t see. I needed to be taken to the toilet, I needed to be introduced again. I needed to be taken to eat.
“Once I was alone, I simply needed to be inside my head as a result of that is all I had. An excessive amount of time with my very own ideas. It is a harmful factor.”
The Odyssey: Origins of the traditional poem and the filming areas
Written: Between 725 BC and 675 BC, so greater than 2,500 years in the past
Primarily based on a real story? Principally no (Cyclopses aren’t actual). Historians are not sure if the Trojan Conflict actually occurred
Who wrote The Odyssey? Homer, however historians do not know a lot about him and debate if he’s a single individual or a bunch of poets
How lengthy is the film? 2hrs, 52mins – finest go to the toilet beforehand
The place was the film filmed? The Hellenic Movie Fee defined Nolan and co filmed at a number of areas within the Peloponnese, together with Nestor’s Cave, Voidokilia Seashore and Almyrolaka Seashore, that are all on the island of Pylos; Methoni Fort, at a port city of the identical title in southwestern Greece; and Acrocorinth, a monolith overlooking the traditional metropolis of Corinth.
In response to Vogue, filming additionally came about in Morocco, in Marrakech, Tahanaoute, El Haouz, Essaouira and Ouarzazate. The solid and crew have been additionally noticed on the Sicilian island of Favignana, whereas they filmed in Iceland for the underworld scenes.
Persevering with their whistlestop tour of Europe, the Odyssey group additionally filmed in Scotland, alongside the Moray Firth Coast and at Findlater Fort and Culbin Forest.
The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm vs regular cinema screens: Helpfully, the film’s website exhibits totally different variations of the trailer in six totally different codecs, all with totally different facet ratios. You’ll be able to see the distinction between IMAX 70mm (warning you now, there are solely three IMAX 70mm screens in the entire of the UK) and the usual 35mm format.
The Odyssey is in cinemas now.
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