‘Simplicity’ Defined Ellen Mirojnick’s Approach to ‘The Odyssey’ Costume Design

In “The Odyssey,” it takes Odysseus 10 years to make it home after the Trojan War. For costume designer Ellen Mirojnick, her journey with Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation was much shorter, but no less epic. It was less than two years ago — September 2024 — when Nolan and his producer-wife Emma Thomas called Mirojnick about the film, which follows their collaboration on “Oppenheimer.” “I hadn’t seen them in a bit,” says Mirojnick. “He put down the script, and it was ‘The Odyssey.’” A few hours later, Mirojnick had an understanding of Nolan’s vision for the film, which was just about to be greenlit for production. “Knowing what Chris has done over the course of his filmmaking career, it was clear that he was very intent on the idea of realism, and not fantasy,” Mirojnick says. “Once that word ‘realism’ comes down, it changes the game entirely,” she adds. “It sets the tone of the film in a way that is quite challenging, and quite exhilarating at the same time.” Unlike “Oppenheimer,” “The Odyssey” wasn’t meant to be a period piece; although there is an awareness of when the story is taking place, it doesn’t live within a specific historical period. “The process was from

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