WarRoom Battleground EP 1064: Hollywood Turns Its Back On Greece; Live From Athens

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Why does the host claim Hollywood has turned its back on Greece?

Stephen K. Bannon 0:02

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Stephen K. Bannon 0:53

Monday, 10 August, Here of Our Lord 2026. Thank you for sticking around for the second half of the late afternoon, early evening show of the war room. We're now going to go to the set of uh the Odyssey. Matt Damon is with us. Oh, my oh, my mistake. That is Matt Boy. I thought you were I thought I see the better. Where in the hell are you, brother? I mean, I say I got Boyle coming in from Greece and it looks like a On the set of the Odyssey, I got I got uh Matt Damon, you know, coming, I got Odysseus coming up with Agamemnon from the Sea with Achilles. From the sea with Achilles. What's going on I'm on the

Matt Boyle 1:29

island I'm on the island of Rhodes. Uh this is the third island I've been to in the last week. Uh I got I arrived in Greece uh last Sunday uh and spent a couple days at Athens, including with the uh migration minister, and I'm sure we'll talk about that in a minute. But then I went to the islands of Lemnos, Crete, and now here in Rhodes, and then we're gonna end up in Mykonos later in the week. So uh quite a uh a journey here across the Greek islands. Uh your j uh your point about the the Odyssey and the big film, I I'll tell you this, I have not met a single person in Greece and I know many of them. That think that that was a good movie. Not one. Everybody thinks it was an insult. There wasn't a single Greek cast in that film.

Matt Boyle 2:17

Uh and uh by the way, there are tons of Greek actors and actresses that I know uh who would have done a far better job than Matt Damon or anyone else that Christopher Nolan cast in that film. Uh it appears as though Christopher Nolan made that film, so and he does this with all of his films, so that then That way it can go b big in China. That's what everybody's been saying, uh to me, is that uh that's what it's all about is you know, get as big as a an audience as you can in the United States and then go across the Chinese state. Big is uh an audience as yeah. Did he

Stephen K. Bannon 2:47

ever reach out d d did he ever reach out? I was kinda shocked. Particularly given that, you know, all the great Greek I mean, drama is not Shakespeare. Shakespeare, you know, learned from the Greeks. The Greeks are the ones that uh that taught us tragedy. Uh the Greek acting, all the amphitheaters you have in in ancient Greece. I mean, the Greek actors are the best in the world, some of the best in the world. Is to your knowledge, did he reach did he reach out to anybody? And and then if you think, hey, not just the acting, but the warrior scenes, right? Did did uh did he reach out to anybody? Was there any development at all of trying to

Matt Boyle 3:23

Make not that I've heard. Not that I've heard. It's it's insulting. I think you had on Andy's Amanitas recently from the uh Greek American lobby and he was making fun of it on your show too. And uh I'm telling you right now, it is a punchline here. Like people don't think that uh that was a an honest production of the the Odyssey. And so it may be an entertaining film. I don't know. I haven't seen it. Uh but uh people are pretty uh ticked off with and peeved at uh uh Christopher Nolan over all of that. So but again, just that's typical Hollywood I guess.

Stephen K. Bannon 3:56

Well, it's one of the foundational uh one of the foundational text of the West and it teaches us, I mean, the the the journey of Odysseus, of uh general Od you know, Ulysses, I guess, in the Latin is uh is one of the foun uh one of the foundational elements It shows you the importance of the region too.