{"id":849629,"date":"2026-08-07T17:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849629\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:08:17","slug":"one-photo-changed-odyssey-actress-samantha-mortons-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849629\/","title":{"rendered":"One photo changed \u2018Odyssey\u2019 actress Samantha Morton\u2019s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"H7MUA2UIYRHIDCTD3O2HANFJTM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Samantha Morton doesn\u2019t get much screen time in \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d but her performance as a witch is transformative. That\u2019s a theme in the British actress\u2019s life: making an awful lot out of very little.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"UAGAORCQABHULEI7TG4VIPVQNM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Morton was born in the industrial city of Nottingham in 1977 and almost immediately became a ward of the court. She spent her chaotic childhood bouncing between foster parents and social care facilities. Refuge arrived in the form of a group that provided theater training to working-class kids. Something proved appealing about pretending to be someone else. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samantha Morton doesn\u2019t get much screen time in \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d but her performance as a witch is transformative.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-849629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849629","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=849629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}