Even The Cast Of The Odyssey Can't Believe There's No CGI In This Jaw-Dropping Scene

Samantha Morton as Circe in The Odyssey It’s well-documented by this point that Christopher Nolan swerved CGI as much as possible in latest movie The Odyssey, instead preferring to showcase practical effects. What you might not realise, though, is that this extends to one of the film’s most visually jaw-dropping moments. Samantha Morton has already received widespread praise for her brief appearance in The Odyssey as Circe, which Nolan has already compared to Heath Ledger’s Oscar-winning work in his Batman movie The Dark Knight. In her sequence, Samantha is seen manipulating Odysseus’ crew into pigs with her hands, a scene which the British actor has revealed didn’t need any digital trickery. She told Vanity Fair: “I just have to say there’s no CGI, and everything is real and in camera.” “That’s movie magic,” she enthused. “There’s always been ways that movie magic can deceive us in a beautiful way. I love magic.” And it turns out, cast members Anne Hathaway and Tom Holland were just as shocked at what Nolan and the team were able to achieve in Circe’s big scene. The Oscar winner recently told IMDB: “We were there and we still don’t know how [some things were achieved]. “Like, we were there, we were a part of it, sometimes we participated in the shots, and then we saw it, and we were like, ‘how did he do that?’.” “Like when they turned the people into pigs?” Tom added. “That’s all real!” “All that sculpting the she’s doing, it’s all animatronics,” the Devil Wears Prada star agreed. “That’s not CGI. They worked with an artist to create something that Samantha could sculpt with live on camera.” Tom recalled: “I watched it, and I was like, ‘so they must have used CGI [in that scene]’. And then the movie ended, and Chris was sat behind me, and I literally turned around and the first thing [I asked] was, ‘how did you do that thing with the pigs?’. “And he was like, ‘oh it’s just camera angles and animatronics and a bunch of actors that were really game to do something crazy’.” @imdb [slight SPOILER ahead] They did WHAT with the pigs?! 😳 #TheOdyssey 🎤 @hillarybautch ♬ original sound - IMDb Samantha added to Vanity Fair: “I love going to puppet theatres. When you think about mime or the history of theatre in that way, it’s the connection between the performer and the marionette, if it’s puppetry. Or we think about Warhorse at the theater. It’s not very long before you forget you’re dealing with a puppet. “Within a moment, you believe that something that isn’t real is real, because our imagination as human beings can stretch far and wide.” “For me as a performer, I love that aspect of working with the practicals in the same way as, I don’t know – if somebody’s playing an airline pilot and they’re in a plane, you have to make that believable. I had to make it believable that I was Circe,” she added. The Odyssey is in cinemas now. Read Samantha Morton’s full interview in Vanity Fair here. READ MORE: 23 Behind-The-Scenes Facts You Probably Didn't Know About How The Odyssey Was Made Christopher Nolan Addresses Rumours About His Next Film After The Odyssey 11 Roles You'd Probably Forgotten Samantha Morton Played Before The Odyssey

Samantha Morton as Circe in The Odyssey It’s well-documented by this point that Christopher Nolan swerved CGI as much as possible in latest movie The Odyssey, instead preferring to showcase practical effects. What you might not realise, though, is that this extends to one of the film’s most visually jaw-dropping moments. Samantha Morton has already received widespread praise for her brief appearance in The Odyssey as Circe, which Nolan has already compared to Heath Ledger’s Oscar-winning work in his Batman movie The Dark Knight. In her sequence, Samantha is seen manipulating Odysseus’ crew into pigs with her hands, a scene which the British actor has revealed didn’t need any digital trickery. She told Vanity Fair: “I just have to say there’s no CGI, and everything is real and in camera.” “That’s movie magic,” she enthused. “There’s always been ways that movie magic can deceive us in a beautiful way. I love magic.” And it turns out, cast members Anne Hathaway and Tom Holland were just as shocked at what Nolan and the team were able to achieve in Circe’s big scene. The Oscar winner recently told IMDB: “We were there and we still don’t know how [some things were achieved]. “Like, we were there, we were a part of it, sometimes we participated in the shots, and then we saw it, and we were like, ‘how did he do that?’.” “Like when they turned the people into pigs?” Tom added. “That’s all real!” “All that sculpting the she’s doing, it’s all animatronics,” the Devil Wears Prada star agreed. “That’s not CGI. They worked with an artist to create something that Samantha could sculpt with live on camera.” Tom recalled: “I watched it, and I was like, ‘so they must have used CGI [in that scene]’. And then the movie ended, and Chris was sat behind me, and I literally turned around and the first thing [I asked] was, ‘how did you do that thing with the pigs?’. “And he was like, ‘oh it’s just camera angles and animatronics and a bunch of actors that were really game to do something crazy’.” @imdb[slight SPOILER ahead] They did WHAT with the pigs?! 😳 #TheOdyssey 🎤 @hillarybautch ♬ original sound - IMDb Samantha added to Vanity Fair: “I love going to puppet theatres. When you think about mime or the history of theatre in that way, it’s the connection between the performer and the marionette, if it’s puppetry. Or we think about Warhorse at the theater. It’s not very long before you forget you’re dealing with a puppet. “Within a moment, you believe that something that isn’t real is real, because our imagination as human beings can stretch far and wide.” “For me as a performer, I love that aspect of working with the practicals in the same way as, I don’t know – if somebody’s playing an airline pilot and they’re in a plane, you have to make that believable. I had to make it believable that I was Circe,” she added. The Odyssey is in cinemas now. Read Samantha Morton’s full interview in Vanity Fair here. READ MORE: 23 Behind-The-Scenes Facts You Probably Didn't Know About How The Odyssey Was Made Christopher Nolan Addresses Rumours About His Next Film After The Odyssey 11 Roles You'd Probably Forgotten Samantha Morton Played Before The Odyssey