Fresh Air Weekend: 'The Odyssey' translator Emily Wilson; Actor Jon Bernthal

Fresh Air | Aug 1

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from the past, as well as new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and it often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:

Odyssey translator Emily Wilson says Nolan shouldn't have written the movie himself: The renowned classics scholar caused a stir when her critical review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey went viral. Wilson explains her reaction to the film and why she's translating the poem again.

In Spider-Man, The Odyssey or The Bear, Jon Bernthal loves to "take it too far": "Our grit and our dedication is the one thing that we have control of," Bernthal says. He plays a Spartan king in The Odyssey, and reprises his role as the Punisher in the new Spider-Man film.

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