00:00I love the questions that this movie poses around responsibility and worthiness and leadership.
00:04By the end, do you think Odysseus thinks he's worthy of calling himself a hero?
00:10Well, yeah, the spoiler alert part of it.
00:12I mean, I think that you can hold this back until the movie's out,
00:16but I think that's one of the incredible things about it is it's the most famous homecoming story ever.
00:22And the twist is that he doesn't want to go home because he has to face somebody that he is
00:28completely open with
00:29and has to tell her the truth the moment he sees her.
00:32And he's carrying an enormous amount of guilt and shame, which is a very – I mean, it's what I
00:42loved about it.
00:43So the first time I read it when, you know, even just in case anybody hasn't seen it,
00:50the line that – Anne has a line in that scene with a realization about who we are and says
00:58it.
00:58Like the first time I read it in the script, I literally gasped.
01:01I was like, you know, I mean, I was – it just really caught me by surprise and walloped me.
01:08And that idea of, you know, attacking the norms and institutions of our – you know,
01:15on which our entire culture is built and that he sees what that's going to mean, you know.
01:24And the world was plunged into 400 years of darkness.
01:28And he's the first to kind of understand that that's what's coming.
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