{"id":252684,"date":"2026-07-20T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/samantha-morton-felt-heath-ledger-comparison-was-bittersweet\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:00:57","slug":"samantha-morton-felt-heath-ledger-comparison-was-bittersweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/samantha-morton-felt-heath-ledger-comparison-was-bittersweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Morton felt Heath Ledger comparison was ‘bittersweet’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Samantha Morton<\/a> found it “bittersweet” to be compared to the late Heath Ledger.<\/p>\n

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Samantha Morton has been compared to the late Heath Ledger<\/p>\n

The 49-year-old actress plays the enchantress Circe in The Odyssey and director Sir Christopher Nolan<\/a> recently revealed the crew applauded her after filming one of her scenes, a reaction he and producer wife Emma Thomas had only previously seen during filming of The Dark Knight Rises with the late actor.<\/p>\n

And Samantha felt very “emotional” when she heard the comparison because she had always wanted to work with Heath – who died from an accidental overdose in January 2008 – and came close when she was cast in 2005’s The Brothers Grimm but later replaced by Lena Headey on the insistence of producer Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n

Samantha told Entertainment Weekly: \u201cThinking about it, it makes me emotional, really. I\u2019m really moved.<\/p>\n

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\u201c[Heath and I] spent some time together, with Matt [Damon], as well, in Rome. I was aching to work with him and Matt, and it didn\u2019t work out. Things just don\u2019t always work out that way. <\/p>\n

\n“So there was something bittersweet in this moment because it\u2019s an honour to be compared to him or to be even mentioned in the same breath.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nOf the take in which she received the rapturous response from the crew, Samantha described it as “true movie magic”.<\/p>\n

\nShe added: “Because it was an alignment almost, like the stars aligning, where everything worked.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nWhile traditional translations of Homer’s The Odyssey have portrayed Circe as a villain, Samantha doesn’t see her as a “baddie” and thinks most women can relate to her character in some way.<\/p>\n

\nShe said: \u201cWhen I read it, it felt like it was my mother\u2019s story or my sister\u2019s story or my daughter\u2019s story or my grandmother\u2019s story.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cYou can open any newspaper and there\u2019s a woman there that you recognize within Circe. <\/p>\n

\n“So I didn\u2019t perceive her as a villain. I just didn\u2019t, even though I can understand why people would think that. <\/p>\n

\n“Our lessons come in really strange ways in life, don\u2019t they? And learning those lessons are sometimes very hard and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s as black and white as if she\u2019s just a baddie.\u201d<\/p>\n

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