Posted on 05/14/2026 7:31:07 AM PDT by 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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Ugh!
If you think about it, hollywood has a history of making White characters black.
Jim West was White in the TV show, in the movie it was will smith.
Last time I checked Nick Fury was White in the comic books.....what did Hollywood do? Gave the role to sambo l jackson.
Same with The Honeymooners movie, made all the characters black.
And that’s just the ones that immediately come to mind.....I’m sure there’s more.
Its obvious, there aint no juice in your pickle jar.
>>It could have been worse. They could have cast a tranny.
They cast a tranny for Achilles.
Excellent review by Matt Walsh on the total mess this 250 million dollar joke of the Odyssey really is.
This should be a really woke waste of money.
The Critical Drinker was also not impressed for some of the same reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5ZqAO8agcU
This isn't about making money, it's about people in the industry unwilling to accept that it's gone. "I'm a movie producer. See? We're working on a movie."
Sidney Sweeney was busy as well.
For this flick, Helen of Troy has become Helen of De-Troy-It.
Bill Clinton, the first ‘black’ president, is too old for that now.
Very convincing as a Greek woman /sarc>. As I said on another thread, I’m still waiting for a Nelson Mandela biopic starring Brendan Gleeson to make “race blind casting” truly authentic.
oops, Matt Walsh talks about it here. Excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbc9vEluweE&t=1560s
You have to reset to beginning.
I hadn’t finished it all yet.
What an insult to the Greeks, literature, and to the film arts. Is she playing Scarlet O’Hara in a GWTW remake next?
This Clown World can’t go on much longer.
Good Lord Yes! What an amazing casting choice!
I too would fight outside the walls of a foreign city for her. (To keep her imprisoned deep inside that foreign city, safely away from my view.)
In my view casting Matt Damon as the lead was as big as mistake as casting black for white.
I went over his credits in IMDB and the only films that I have seen in him are The Departed, Rounders and the Rainmaker.
I tried to watch one of the early Bourne films but it made me sick “literally” as it used that herky jerky hand held camera effect.
Just when you start to think that the left can’t possibly get any more asinine, fake and gaslighting fraudulent...
they pull something like this.
That is ‘cause all along the Med there are Caucasians. The only blacks (from central Africa) were slave traders visiting. Just more race swapping garbage to satisfy the Oscar’s racist rules.
It’s not entertainment anymore it’s training and they could care less how much money they throw away ,LOL
To truly modernize the classic, Helen should sport a prosthetic penis.
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