She appears on screen in The Odyssey for barely ten minutes. Yet Samantha Morton has emerged as a surprise frontrunner to win next year’s Best Supporting Actress Oscar after delivering what many are calling the ‘standout performance’ in the summer’s blockbuster.
The acclaimed British actress has left audiences and critics spellbound with her portrayal of enchantress Circe in Christopher Nolan’s £190m adaptation of Homer’s Greek epic.
Despite her ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ performance in the three-hour film, Ms Morton, 49, has become one of its biggest talking points. Its opening weekend saw it take more than £198m worldwide and top the
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