{"id":702668,"date":"2026-07-21T02:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702668\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:57:13","slug":"why-christopher-nolan-cut-the-odysseys-most-famous-penelope-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702668\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Christopher Nolan Cut The Odyssey\u2019s Most Famous Penelope Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anne Hathaway addressed why a well-known scene from Homer&#8217;s The Odyssey was omitted from Christopher Nolan&#8217;s film, citing narrative focus as the reason. In an interview with ScreenRant, the actress said Christopher Nolan&#8217;s The Odyssey excluded the olive tree bed to keep attention on the story&#8217;s late-stage stakes. Hathaway explained the decision centered on sustaining momentum around whether Odysseus would survive, noting the bed-chamber moment could exist offscreen within the characters&#8217; lives. In Homer&#8217;s poem, the olive tree bed is central to Odysseus and Penelope&#8217;s reunion. Nolan&#8217;s adaptation stars Matt Damon and Hathaway, released July 17, 2026, and currently holds 95% critics and 97% audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anne Hathaway addressed why a well-known scene from Homer&#8217;s The Odyssey was omitted from Christopher Nolan&#8217;s film, citing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9018,2826,96,232768,2839,233218,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-702668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-anne-hathaway","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-entertainment","tag-homers-the-odyssey","tag-movies","tag-odysseus-and-penelope","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}