For Odysseus in The Return, Ralph Fiennes went through a brutal five-month body transformation: Here's how he did it

Ralph Fiennes has played a lot of unforgettable characters over the years, but nothing quite prepared audiences for the sight of him, shirtless and sculpted, as a war-weary Odysseus in The Return.

The 2024 film, a stripped-down retelling of the final chapters of Homer's Odyssey, saw the actor return home not as a king but as a broken, battle-scarred survivor washed up on the shores of Ithaca.