Catherine Shoard
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
Catherine Shoard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Today in Focus · The Odyssey: is Nolan adaptation worth the hype? - The Latest · 17 Jul 2026
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Ironically, it's quite bloodless.
So Odysseus is forever, you know, with a bow and arrow.
That's more like that.
He's forever killing people very, very cleanly and effectively.
And they just pop off.
It's like a computer game.
Nobody ever kind of goes, oh, they just die.
Yeah.
And so you've got this R-rated film that's sort of all grisly and muscular and real and, oh, my God, it's about trauma.
But also it's not.
It's just a sort of computer game.
There's an outrageous scene there.
late on it in it which isn't in the poem where Odysseus does an amazing bit of ass kicking against some goons who are dressed up as other people and just think sort of boring it's sort of it's sort of a bit of a liberty and it's quite boring right and I know I'll be attacked a lot for saying it was a bit boring but from time to time it felt a bit boring just a bit daft and you talked about the old sarcasm I remember when I saw the trailer for it I think last year I just thought it was just AI generated I was like this is ridiculous you can't have a
Well, surprisingly, given that you've got that incredibly stacked cast, it was John Leguizamo, who is most recently best known as Sid, the voice of the animal Sid in Ice Age and is also in Encanto, but has done things like the Julie Newmar film, who's a drag queen and did some Baz Luhrmann films and stuff like that.
He's great.
He's this Colombian actor.
He plays a very loyal blind servant, Emmaus.
And it's really, you sort of think, who's that guy?
Is that Abel Ferrara?
Who the heck is it?
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