00:00So the Variety Newsroom is buzzing about your performance. You are one of our
00:04favorites. We were talking about it on the call the other day. Have you started
00:07to hear people clamoring about Oscar buzz? Is that something you've heard?
00:10No, but now, well. I think it's cool because if you were nominated to see like
00:17an Amy Madigan win that we saw a couple years ago, the Academy has started to
00:20recognize more horror performances. I know this isn't a horror movie, but the
00:23scenes that you're in, I mean they're pretty terrifying. I was wondering did
00:27you see that performance and what do you think about the idea of these horror
00:30performances that are getting more recognition? Well, I didn't see Circe as
00:34horror, but I understand where you're going with that. I think that it's more, to me,
00:39I grew up loving films like American Wealth in London, you know, or The
00:45Exorcist is one of my all-time favorite films. Ellen Bernstein is one of my
00:48favorite actresses, along with Billy Whitelaw. And often actresses in those
00:53films get, they're underrated in a way because we kind of, it's the same as
00:56comedy. Comedy is incredibly hard, and so they put it in a comedy category. I
01:01don't know, I didn't see Circe as horror, but that's fascinating. I do. I'm gonna
01:06rethink it now. Those pig scenes, I heard they're practical too. What was it like to
01:09see that makeup? Oh my gosh, I mean I work with Chris Cunningham, I'm a big fan of
01:14Matthew Barney, and there's an artist called Ron Muick that I'm a big fan of.
01:17So, growing up I loved The Dark Crystal and Jim Henson's puppets or The
01:22Neverending Story, you know, The Labyrinth. So, for me to work with practical special
01:28effects like that felt like a dance. It was a dream come true. Loved it.
01:33Yeah, to be able to be alongside them and not have a tennis ball.
01:35Yeah, I mean Society, I remember, I don't even remember that film in the
01:38ages. I love that film. So, it's kind of all my work. I love it.
01:43What I love about the Odyssey text is the way it kind of like redefines masculinity
01:48and like the scenes that you're in is obviously talking about that. How did you
01:52find when you were kind of like doing the research for this character, this story
01:55kind of shines a light on that? Well, I didn't read The Odyssey growing up, so I
02:00was just looking at this from a filmmaker and his script and it blew me away. I was
02:05crying, I was anxious, I was, my heart was in my mouth, you know, for all of these
02:11characters. The female roles blew my mind, the vulnerability of Odysseus, all of
02:16these roles. Elliot Page, I mean, that performance, you know, Zendaya, I mean, I
02:22can't, it's hot, I have to mention everybody in this hot minute because
02:26everybody is top of their game in this film. I'm so proud of everybody and to work
02:30with Matt Damon, who I've been wanting to work with since I was knee-high to a
02:34grasshopper, was like, and Christopher Nolan is my favorite filmmaker, so, you
02:39know, like, I feel like the cat that got the cream. Okay, so if he's your favorite
02:43filmmaker and he's done Batman, now he's done The Odyssey, what would you want to
02:46see him adapt next? What do I want to see Christopher Nolan do? Oh my gosh, what a
02:51great question. A nightmare. A nightmare. But I think... A longer, more extended nightmare.
03:06Something to do with, but also there's, I think that there's always humanity and hope
03:10in whatever he does and to me it almost feels religious without sounding like a
03:15strange person. There's always some redemption or confession or something
03:19where you're coming to a point where, as humanity, we're asking these very big
03:22questions. I don't know anybody else that's managed to achieve that so
03:27subtly and without hammering home. It's just there, in almost like breath.
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