Lupita Nyong'o Confirmed To Play The Odyssey's Helen Of Troy

Film ^ | May 12, 2026 | DEBOPRIYAA DUTTA

[Bon of Babble]

Lupita Nyong'o, has been confirmed to play Helen of Troy — as well as her twin sister, Clytemnestra.

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KEYWORDS: dei; fail; furyspeople; hollywood; movies; queencharlotte

[Nateman]

Hell No! Of Detroit.

[proust]

I don’t need to be in a nuclear war to know it’s bad.

[Nateman]

The face that launched a thousand ‘No’s!’

[SaveFerris]

Oh I’m not being very nice today 😀😄

I guess I should try to get that deleted LOL 🤣🤣

[x]

The picture was already shot last year. It was planned and cast back in the Biden DEI era. So it’s kind of a relic of that period, like last year’s Snow White. That movie though, was actually shot in 2022 and only released last year.

Nolan’s pic was shot on IMAX and that’s kind of cool.

[Tallguy]

Nolan only cares about being eligible for a Best Picture Oscar. Everything else is secondary.

[dfwgator]

I don’t need to be in a nuclear war to know it’s bad.

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I don’t need to smell s__t to know that it stinks.

[Bethaneidh]

Well she is pretty, but she’s not Greek.

[Nateman]

...I found Nolan’s Oppenheimer movie abrasively angst ridden...

Ayn Rand based her villain Robert Stadler on Oppenheimer. What surprised me was she was assigned the task of making a movie about him , so the studio had her interview him. She wrote a script but the movie obviously was never made .

[Steve_Seattle1]

These efforts to cast black actors and actresses in roles in which the original character or historical person was NOT black are actually an insult to black people because they suggest that there are no real-world black persons worthy of memorialization in film and literature. They also suggest a lack of creative imagination - rather than making Sherlock Holmes or Batman or Helen of Troy black, create a new character who IS black.

[dfwgator]

These efforts to cast black actors and actresses in roles in which the original character or historical person was NOT black are actually an insult to black people because they suggest that there are no real-world black persons worthy of memorialization in film and literature.

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No wonder this “Black Acting School” went out of business.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ASZ6K9cPNk

[Trump_Triumphant]

Too bad Flip Wilson isn’t available.

[TTFlyer]

Black actor as Crazy Horse. Black actor as Douglas MacArthur. Black actor as Isoroku Yammamoto. Black actor as Robert E. Lee. Black actor as Henry VIII. Black actor as FDR.

Makes perfect sense. In Clown World.

[circlecity]

“ It cost $250 million to produce.”

With a marketing budget of 100 million (not unusual for this type of big budget movie) it would take 700 million in sales just to break even.

[x]

every depiction of Helen of Troy known shows a Caucasian female.

I get the point, but was she a real person whose portrait could have been painted from life?

[Schatze]

He has a history of making great movies.

Including Oppenheimer, for which Nolan won the Best Director Oscar. He's about to learn the "go woke, go broke" lesson.

[suthener]

Here’s why I can’t watch a modern movie. These requirements are generally too distracting and unrealistic to most movie plots. They shoehorn blacks or homosexuals into ever movie.

“The Four DEI Standards
To qualify for Best Picture consideration, a film must satisfy the following criteria:

Standard A: On-Screen Representation. The film must meet one of three conditions:
Cast a lead or significant supporting actor from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group.
Ensure at least 30% of the ensemble cast consists of women, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, or underrepresented racial/ethnic groups (from at least two of these categories).
Center the main storyline or subject matter on an underrepresented group.
Standard B: Creative Leadership. At least two department heads (e.g., director, cinematographer, editor) must be from underrepresented groups, with at least one being a person of color. Alternatively, the film can meet this standard by employing six or more crew members from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups in technical roles, or having 30% of the entire crew come from at least two underrepresented categories.
Standard C: Industry Access. The film’s distributor or financing company must provide internship or entry-level opportunities to at least two individuals from underrepresented groups.
Standard D: Audience Development. The studio’s marketing, publicity, or distribution units must include at least two senior executives or consultants from underrepresented groups, including at least one person of color.”

[proust]

“What if I told you we could make more money LOSING ticket buyers than by gaining them?!”

[T.B. Yoits]

It’s almost like someone is holding a gun to their head bank account and career.

[Celtic Conservative]

In other news, actor/comedian Martin Short is slated to portray South African president Nelson Mandela...

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