Samantha Morton revealed on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that she has been out of acting work for an entire year since wrapping production on Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” in 2025. The two-time Oscar nominee attributed her age as the reason why.
“I haven’t worked for a year since making ‘The Odyssey,’ you know, and I’ve got really good agents and a manager, but at the end of the day, I’m 49,” Morton said. “I do believe I’m a good actor, [but] there are other good actors out there. Do you know what I mean? So, the politics of the industry has changed massively.”
Morton said that when Nolan called her to offer her the role of the witch Circe in “The Odyssey” opposite Matt Damon that it afforded her “hope and faith, that, I suppose, if you keep at it, and you keep producing good work, and that the right people see it, then maybe you can carry on working.”
The 49-year-old has been a working actor since 1991 and her career spans major Hollywood movies (Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report”) and franchises (“The Walking Dead”) in addition to indie dramas that have garnered her Oscar nominations (“Sweet and Lowdown,” “In America”) and various awards. Morton has earned some of the best reviews of her career and Oscar buzz for playing Circe in “The Odyssey.” Variety ranked her as the movie’s best performance among the sprawling ensemble cast.
