Amy Nicholson
speaker
5,140 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Amy Nicholson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because one of the first things that knocked me sideways when I saw the Odyssey is
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Oh, Nolan is making a film about antiquity that doesn't look like any of the usual films you see about antiquity.
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Like it doesn't have that Clash of the Titans look of like Greek columns and white pillars and all of that.
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He's really saying, no, this is an ancient time.
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This is a time even older than that.
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You know, this is a time where people are living in these kind of
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Temples that are carved out of caves.
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You know, it's rustic right from the get go.
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Yeah, like 'cause this w he's setting this really like at the collapse of the late Bronze Age.
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Yeah, you mean like the kind of Ray Harryhausen exclamation style?
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Totally.
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And I loved that about it.
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I thought the Cyclops was so tactile.
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Like I loved his gray, wrinkly skin.
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I loved how his face was sideways.
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Cause I was like, I don't know what scene you were most looking forward to, but me, the scene I was most looking forward to was the Cyclops scene.
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And after all that insp anticipation to have a cyclops that didn't look like any cyclops I was picturing in my mind, that was amazing.
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Well yeah, I mean my impression of how he tells the Cyclops story in in the original poem is like
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And I a stinker, and I a smart ass.
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I tricked this guy.
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