Charlize Theron, Zendaya, Samantha Morton Talk ‘The Odyssey

We're back it is 8.35 now back with more of our countdown to the odyssey the colossal scale stunning visuals and storytelling of Christopher Nolan's new film transports viewers into homers epic poem and we're catching up with the cast all week and we're going to start with let's start with this award-winning group Charlize Theron and Samantha Morton they represent just a few of the mythical elements Odysseus faces on his journey home. Ladies welcome welcome. You're. It's amazing, it's so it's so special. I saw it last week it is it is amazing and visually it's it's quite stunning. I did not realize this until a few days ago, none of you are actually in scenes together, but you're doing the press tour together is this the most time the 3 of you spent together. Yeah, it's been great. Yeah, nice. Yeah, it's truly an epic film, it's filmed on several continents will show you Samantha where did you film which countries. I found in Scotland which for me was a bit like oh really. That's when my foster parents live safe for me to go see my parents and then not about to get some fish and chips and yeah, so Scotland. I kind of popped in everywhere. I popped in and out of everywhere which was so special, I mean some of the locations I feel so lucky to be able to have explored because I otherwise maybe wouldn't even know they existed at some of the most gorgeous locations. And yeah, I also felt bad because I was just like people have been going on this odyssey will like working so hard going location occasion or just pop in play guys, you know, but it is really I mean it's extraordinary and surely so you. So when I met with Chris he's like I'm thinking of shooting this part in Bora Bora or Fiji and I was like say no more. When do we go. But we ended up in a beautiful place, it's actually the windsurfing capital of the world. So it's just a little windy. But it was in Morocco. It was beautiful. It was a lot when the in some of those things I saw yeah, it was not it was not more of or yeah, this is how you he gets you. It's like she likes the tropics let's sell around that and all of your scenes are exclusively with Matt Damon and and this was the first time like 2526 years and you work for 30 years, I think so yeah, legend of Agra van was that like reuniting with with Matt it was amazing, you know, I I don't I think that was maybe for me the biggest surprise was how sentimental it started to feel like we did the first take and I just went. My God we did this when you were babies and here we are 2 old no humans, you know, he's just one of my favorite people and it's rare that you get to do something like that you know to experience the same experience like 30 years later and with someone as great and as wonderful, he's just good people, he's lovely people to be around them. We're also happy for him that he got this opportunity a better man couldn't have gotten it. And he said he shines again like no surprise your first day on set it's the sacking of Troy, I know it's really the elaborate scene in the film, yeah, I mean it was it was I honestly I mean without you know kind of the kind of corny saying is like it felt like a dream, but it really did I think I was on a night shoot on you for you like the night before and then I traveled there and I had never seen such scale, I mean we like we keep talking about the scale the magnitude the the detail from every single performer also everyone's giving so much there's I've never seen so many background performers stunt people everyone is there's fire there's lights that you know all the all the things and people are giving so much and so they that's a high that's a high stakes high pressure first day I also read on that first day your partner Tom yeah, he was there to support you yes, was that love because I was so nervous. First day on a Chris Nolan said I want to and everything is you know moving in such a level, I don't want to be the thing that's holding it up, you know. So he he came on his day off and I could like it's like you know having your someone in the wings you get to look over and they're like you've got a good so it was nice to have that support some of them want to embarrass you for just a moment here. I'm going to read something that Christopher Nolan said about you after one of your takes and this is a quote verbatim after one of Samantha's takes the crew gave her a great round of applause. The last time that happened was with Heath ledger on the dark night. That's that's a price. Well, yeah, yeah, I think that going back to what you just saying the crew as well have been on this odyssey and so you have a connection with the crew with a really with each of our characters, but also without giving anything away. There's a scene that I do that people cannot believe is not CGI so I think the clap was obviously it was lovely that they're clapping says see. But there was also this sense that it's certainly the special for everything that we did came together and it was a to me, I'll never forget it and it was a beautiful moment of in cinema, you know, yeah, it is an extraordinary. It is it is well done. Thank you thank you thank you all 3 of you. We also should mention that we're going to hear from the co-star Robert Pattinson in the 3rd hour. Matt Damon will be here tomorrow as well and oh by the way the odyssey it's from our sister company, universal pictures, it hits theaters this Friday.