{"id":832337,"date":"2026-07-28T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832337\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:37:08","slug":"charlize-therons-burrito-blanket-in-the-odyssey-has-the-internet-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832337\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlize Theron\u2019s \u2018burrito blanket\u2019 in The Odyssey has the internet talking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Charlize Theron attends The Odyssey’s New York premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on July 14.Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey first had to deal with the culture wars, egged on by a fuming Elon Musk. The billionaire, who had not previously shown a whole lot of interest in the literary canon, spent months complaining all over X that this movie seemed suspiciously woke. <\/p>\n

\u201cChris Nolan is pissing on Homer\u2019s grave,\u201d Musk posted in response to the film\u2019s casting of Black and trans actors. He later said he might bankroll a \u201chistorically accurate\u201d version by director Mel Gibson \u2013 you know, the guy who did Braveheart. Last week, Musk floated spinning up an AI-generated adaptation instead.<\/p>\n

The Odyssey review: Christopher Nolan delivers an awe-inspiring spectacle<\/a><\/p>\n

The Odyssey then had to navigate the ire of Greek scholars, led by star classicist Emily Wilson. Nolan has cited her translation of the poem as an inspiration for his epic, but Wilson, it turns out, would very much like to be excluded from this narrative. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would have been embarrassed to write any part of this script,\u201d she contended in a biting essay<\/a> for the London Review of Books that went online on Monday. \u201cIt lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth.\u201d (Traffic to Wilson\u2019s essay briefly crashed the LRB\u2018s site.) <\/p>\n

Now The Odyssey has to contend with the costume backlash \u2013 and that, at least, is proving more fun. Whether on TikTok, Reddit, X or Letterboxd, movie viewers are in total agreement: Charlize Theron\u2019s Calypso is definitely wearing a burrito blanket. Here\u2019s what you need to know about the viral wardrobe choice.<\/p>\n

Sorry \u2013 a burrito blanket?<\/p>\n

Yes, although \u201ctortilla blanket\u201d would also be accepted. It\u2019s a large beige blanket, circular in shape, that looks like unleavened flatbread, with blistered spots scattered across the surface. <\/p>\n

Charlize Theron wears a burrito blanket?<\/p>\n

Yes, and the internet won\u2019t hear otherwise. \u201cOff topic but there\u2019s a scene in The Odyssey where Calypso looks like she\u2019s in a fragrance ad with a 100% polyester burrito blanket,\u201d reads a representative post on X, which has racked up nearly three million views. On Letterboxd, a reviewer laments: \u201c250 million dollar budget and they gave Charlize Theron one of those tortilla blankets.\u201d <\/p>\n

The scene arrives after Calypso allows Matt Damon\u2019s Odysseus to leave her island, where she\u2019s held him captive for seven years. He builds a raft. She looks on, draped in some sort of shawl. And if TikTok comments are any indication, moviegoers everywhere leaned over to their companions and excitedly whispered, \u201cthat\u2019s the tortilla blanket from Amazon!\u201d <\/p>\n

Is the blanket any good?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s certainly popular. The novelty item has been kicking around since at least 2018, but the pandemic prompted fresh demand for swaddling yourself like a burrito. In its latest roundup of gag-gift ideas, Wirecutter recommended<\/a> the Casofu Burritos Tortilla Throw Blanket, which is indeed available on Amazon. <\/p>\n

Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey is the future of filmgoing \u2013 if we want it to be<\/a><\/p>\n

Is this blanket the most-mocked costume in a recent Hollywood blockbuster?<\/p>\n

No. That honour belongs to the sex cardigan from Wicked: For Good.<\/p>\n

For the uninitiated: Halfway through Wicked\u2018s sequel, Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey) start to get handsy while belting out the power ballad \u201cAs Long As You\u2019re Mine.\u201d Elphaba pauses, considers, then proceeds to slip into something more comfortable \u2013 a chunky wool cardigan that falls mid-calf and has about 4,000 extraneous threads.<\/p>\n

The internet lost its collective mind. There were takedowns: \u201cI\u2019m Being Driven Insane By Wicked: For Good\u2019s Sex Cardigan,\u201d a Vulture<\/a> article insisted. There were counter attacks: \u201cStop the knitwear slander \u2013 the Wicked: For Good sex cardigan is good, actually,\u201d the London Standard<\/a> declared. There were mock public service announcements about catching your scraggly sex cardigan on a door handle, plus too many Devil Wears Prada memes to count.<\/p>\n

Is Christopher Nolan fussed about the burrito-blanket jokes?<\/p>\n

Highly unlikely. The Odyssey made more than US$650-million worldwide in its first 10 days at the box office and is already, according to Variety, the sixth-highest grossing Hollywood film this year. Also, the director doesn\u2019t have a smartphone. Or an e-mail address. Or \u2013 one has to imagine \u2013 a TikTok account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Charlize Theron attends The Odyssey’s New York premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,14895,2922],"class_list":["post-832337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-lc-oc","tag-noastack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}