Overview
- Morton told the Happy Sad Confused podcast she has not worked for about a year since finishing Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey in 2025 and said her age — she is 49 — shaped that lull.
- Variety and other coverage note that her role as Circe earned some of the best reviews of her career and sparked awards conversation even as steady new work did not immediately follow.
- Morton revisited being replaced on Spike Jonze’s Her, saying she recorded the voice role on set but was replaced in post-production and that the experience left her sad and hurt.
- Deadline reports that Morton has since been cast in the rescue thriller Love and War and Amazon’s crime series Dirty, which shows incoming projects even as she describes recent inactivity.
- Her account feeds into a broader debate about fewer leading roles for older actresses and highlights the emotional and practical toll when acclaim does not quickly translate into steady employment.