Christopher Nolan cast Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy for his upcoming epic, The Odyssey.
Some folks are having a ball trashing the choice as
inaccurate and not true to the original material etc. Helen was white!
Me thinks this is rage baiting from folks who have too much
free time.
Counter-arguments against finding offense in the casting of
a mythical character are sensible to me but don't seem to get much traction --
evidence this is all social media chirping.
Nolan's work is routinely visionary, and, IMO, he can do as
he pleases because the film will most assuredly be a quality production.
Folks SHOULD be asking why he wasn't able to get the
executive to play the part of the Cyclops Polyphemus, who, after entrapping and
eating some of Ulysses' men, was outwitted and blinded by a smaller and smarter
being and left crying that "Nobody" had hurt him.
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