On Location peels again the curtain on a few of your favourite movies, tv reveals, and extra. This time, we check out The Odyssey.
The Odyssey is one huge journey nightmare. It’s all there—Odysseus and his crew get delayed, they get misplaced, they get separated, their vessels break down, they get low blood sugar that makes them mutinous. You positively don’t want to journey like Odysseus, however the newest adaptation of Homer’s epic by Christopher Nolan could have you ever wanting to go to a few of their journey’s locations on goal.
The textual content of The Odyssey is about in two major places: Troy, or present-day Turkey, and Greece, particularly the Greek islands. Some are legendary, others, like Ithaca, truly exist. Odysseus (Matt Damon) and his dwindling crew spend ten years voyaging from Troy to Ithaca, the place his spouse Penelope (Anne Hathaway) and son Telemachus (Tom Holland) loyally await. In order to create this various world, Nolan and manufacturing designer Ruth De Jong regarded past the anticipated locales (though Greece and Italy, a rustic of classical Mediterranean look, do in the end function fairly closely) and shot in Morocco, Iceland, and Scotland as nicely.
De Jong, who sat down with Traveler to inform us the place The Odyssey was filmed, says, “We wanted to start in the Mediterranean, and we wanted to end in the Mediterranean. But Chris and I were not interested in an entire sun bleached sort of vibe.” Scouting took them everywhere in the world—De Jong checked out Australian seashores and Japanese woodland—earlier than they landed on the ultimate places, the relative proximity of which had been extra logistically interesting. Below, De Jong takes us by way of her favourite locations to movie.
Greece
“We were there for a month,” says De Jong of taking pictures in Greece. Scenes filmed in Odysseus’s ancestral residence included his unlucky journey into the Cyclops Polyphemus’s cave, which occurred at Nestor’s Cave, a widely known web site within the Peloponnese area, close to Pylos. Telemachus’s go to to Sparta, the place King Meneleus reigns together with his newly-returned spouse Helen (Lupita Nyong’o, who additionally performs Helen’s sister Clytemnestra) in quest of information of his father, stopped at an olive grove in Messinia for the looking scene. The homecoming of Agamemnon (Benny Safdie) to Clytemnestra was shot outdoors at Methoni Castle in Messinia in addition to outdoors Athens on the monolithic Acrocorinth. “That worked well, with the flags and the banners,” says De Jong. “And Chris wanted to just make sure that it was so clear how windy our entire shoot was. So, so windy.”
