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Posted on 02/10/2026 8:52:52 PM PST by SeekAndFind
If Helen of Troy were meant to be an African woman, Homer might have told his readers that fact in his telling of the greatest and most timeless epic poems in Western history – The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Her appearance being so contrary to everyone else in the Greek world certainly would have warranted a mention. This much, at least, should be obvious to everyone.
Imagining Helen’s appearance to be that of an African woman is just farcical, if one has any respect for the source material at all. It would make no sense for a high-budget production to take diligent care in correctly portraying the minutiae about Greek armor, weapons, landscapes, and triremes, for example, only to say “screw it, let’s make Helen of Troy an African lady.”
But no less than famed writer/director Christopher Nolan has been accused of such absurd pandering in these past weeks. Rumors have been spreading widely and loudly that he has cast Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in his new film treatment of Homer’s The Odyssey.
Now, at this point, the story has all the hallmarks of a hoax. To my knowledge, no one in the production has verified that she would be playing this role. While some actors have their parts credited already at IMDB, many others are cited as having roles in the film without citing which characters they will play. Ms. Nyong’o is among these.
It’s clear that she has been cast in the film, but it seems unlikely that she would be playing Helen. After all, Helen is not a critical player in The Odyssey – [mild spoiler alert] after having run off with her now-dead Trojan lover and fueling a decade-long war in Troy in the events that led to The Iliad,
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RE: I think she would be better cast as Prissy in Gone With The Wind.
Lupita Nyong’o already won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Patsey in the 2013 film 12 Years a Slave.
My history sources report that the beautiful Helen was actually a transsexual African American, cuter than even RuPaul. MEEEEOWWW!
But Helen of Troy makes no sense.
The twerk thant launched a thousand ships just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Not a real person
That girl who sank the Disney remake of Snow Mocha will be in charge of public relations, and Bad Bunny will be doing the soundtrack.
Instead, now we're going to get, "Yo Marc Antonious L.Shaniqua -Y U B disrespectin' mah azz! Ima lunch a thousin ship on yo' azz m*uthaf*cka!" Twerk! Twerk! Screech! Screech! Screech! Grunt! Grunt!
Maybe an uber, with a discount coupon...
The Face That Launched A Couple of Baby Daddies???
Racism did not exist in the ancient world. The concept of race is a fairly recent one. At the time they attributed skin color to where you were born. Helen of Troy would not look like Hell-No of Detroit.
In Japan they had to tolerate a fabricated revisionist history of a Black Samurai.
Really ?
Its all like claiming that Zulu Chief Shaka was a White Man !
We need to do a movie portraying Shaka Zulu as a white man !
Shaka was actually a stranded Viking who married into the Shaka lineage ad was elevated to the Chiefship due to his having over 50 wives !
I’m surprised that Nolan would do something like this. I guess he jumped the shark. I predict this will be his first major flop. He’s due for one.
When the first Disney Star Wars movie trailer came out, and a stormtrooper took his helmet off, and there was a black guy, Disney ended up losing billions. In China, Disney even took his face off the advertisements. the Chinese will not watch movies with black people. in China, the posters for the movie substituted BB8 the robot’s image. I think i saw it once on cable, or at least parts of it. No desire to see it again
Christopher Nolen is doing this to help the blacks since they have few role models in their culture. Talk about culture appropriation.
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