Helen of Troy Is Obviously Not an African, but Will Woke Hollywood Make Her One?

American Thinker ^ | 02/10/2026 | William Sullivan

[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.

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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,

[T. Rustin Noone]

The closest thing to “Black” Japanese are the residents of
Okinawa. Okinawans traditionally have darker skin and more
body and facial hair than the traditional Japanese, and they
are seriously discriminated against by mainland Japanese.

[Candor7]

Cool .

Its a perfect meme for a grant application in the state of California to make a movie about Shaka,, who was actually a queer white man descended from wandering Vikings.

Perfect.

[TigersEye]

So a mythological Greek woman can be any race or ethnicity?

Maybe a Thai ladyboy would suit your tastes? Helen of Boy!

[alstewartfan]

Apparently, the men of the day were too busy packing fudge to notice Helen.....

[Candor7]

THey are all gorgeous , I would not kick any of them out of bed for eating crackers ! LOL.

But that juxtaposition of photos made me laugh.

Revisionist History. the creation of reality via politically correct memes.

“Ya doan like ‘istory?”....change it to suit yourself.Every totalitarian state that ever existed used the technique very well.

NOw the Palestinians are saying that there were no atrocities committed by HAMAS on Oct 7th.( Make the world ignorant.)

OIts a joke when it happens in the movies, but when applied in the body politic, it brings fascism and war.Obana was an expert at revisionist history.We are still suffering from it with millions of illegal aliens present in America, devastating our state governments in demographic warfare.