What is behind these type movies is the effort to move the standard of beauty away from beautiful Caucasian females to a more non-white standard. By traditional Caucasian female beauty standards, the female playing Helen of Troy is not beautiful at all. One could go to any Podunk Junction hamlet in the United States and find black females much prettier than her.
That’s what I didn’t understand. Nyong’o is not unattractive, but there are so many truly beautiful Black women they could have chosen who would have made more sense in the role.
That is, if they were going to mess around like this in the first place...