Anne Hathaway Reveals Pig Scene in ‘The Odyssey’ Was Filmed Without CGI

Haven’t seen The Odyssey yet? Call out of work/school/plans and run, don’t walk, to a movie theater. Have seen it? Prepare to have your mind blown because Circe’s instantly iconic scene—where she turns Odysseus’s men into pigs—didn’t use any CGI or special effects.Anne Hathaway and Tom Holland revealed this shocking fact while doing press, with Anne explaining, “The thing I think people can’t believe is, we were there and we still don’t know how it happened. We were part of it, sometimes we participated in the shots, and then we saw it and we were like ‘how did he do that?’”Tom then chimed in with “Like, when they turned the people into pigs? That’s all real. That’s all animatronics.”Anne went on to tell a truly baffled IMDb interviewer that “All that sculpting she’s doing? That’s not CGI. I know! That is a practical effect,” while Tom explained, “That’s an animatronic head. When she pulls their jaws apart and stuff? That’s real!”According to Anne, they “worked with an artist to create something that Samantha could sculpt with live on camera.”Samantha also talked about filming the scene with Vanity Fair, saying “I just have to say there's no CGI, and everything is real and in camera. That's movie magic. There's always been ways that movie magic can deceive us in a beautiful way. I love magic; I was a magician's assistant when I was younger. I love David Blaine. When we're kids and we dream about being in the movies, for me, it was all about watching films like The Labyrinth or The Never Ending Story and wanting to be the white dragon floating in the sky.”Never getting over this.