For The Return (2024), Ralph Fiennes spent five months transforming into Odysseus. At 60, he trained 6 days a week to achieve the lean, weathered look of a man returning after 20 years of war. He then had to gain some weight back before filming 28 Years Later.

Movie was accurate but explain why the guys who criticize Nolan’s odyssey gave no shit about this film

Good movie but I enjoyed the Armand Assante version more

I would be pretty happy with this physique at 60

Why in the fuck have I not heard about this film?

This movie was secretly great. I enjoyed it at least. I put it on without expecting much at all, and it turned out to be well done.

I have seen this movie, and it's absolutely time wasting

Same scene?

Meanwhile tom cuckland have not gave enough fucks to change haircut from spiderman set

I was just talking about this scene today and telling my colleagues to not even bother going to see "The Odyssey." Just watch "The Return."

The ending dialogue between Ulysses and Penelope is endearing as they vow to heal one another from the guilt and the resentment by telling one another their twenty year story of solitude and remember together.

O filme é ruim, parece que ngm quer estar ali, essa cena é uma das poucas que são boas, junto com a despedida do Argos

Watched this last night…fucking awesome. Can’t recommend it enough

This is that build you see those oddly lowkey jacked homeless men have

Crazy this didn’t make Nolan think twice about making the exact same movie two years later?

There's an Italian version of 1968, for our tv. I think you'd should have to see that..

The Return is one of the movies of all time

Hilarious when actors go through all this for some shit that nobody even watches. Like when Jared Leto got fat for that Lennon movie.

I never heard of this movie. is it good?

and on the other side we have Matt Damon doing pew pew with his bow

"you tried to steal my world, the world I built"

absolutely insane what you can do with steroids

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This film has no aura

A great rendition of Odysseus’ return to Ithaca 🔥🔥🔥

Es el Odiseo perfecto

Is this movie better than The Odyssey?

What a waste of his talent, such a poor movie.

Seeing Ralph Fiennes push his body to extremes for roles hits different, but intense actor physical transformations go back decades. Cinema history runs deep. Who pulled off the most radical body change?

Training like that at 60 is seriously inspiring.

Terrible movie. Moody emo ‘thoughtful’.

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That level of physical commitment at 60 is brutal especially back-to-back. For The Return, director Uberto Pasolini didn't want a Hollywood-style, idealized hero. He wanted an Odysseus who looked like a man broken by decades of trauma, starvation, and grueling warfare washed ashore on Ithaca. ​Fiennes locked in a strict regime: ​Train six days a week: Focused on high-intensity strength and endurance training to build lean, functional muscle rather than bulk. ​Calorie deficit: Dropped significant body fat to give his face and torso that gaunt, battle-worn, "sculpted by hardship" look. ​The quick pivot: Right after wrapping, he had to reverse course and put weight back on to play Dr. Ian Kelson in Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later, where his character called for a completely different physique. ​It's one thing to pull off intense physical body transformations in your 20s or 30s when recovery is quick, but doing it in your 60s requires insane discipline. It reunites him with Juliette Binoche (their first film together since The English Patient in 1996), making that raw, grounded take on Homer's Odyssey hit even harder.

Movie was great

Funny 😂