Back in Roman times racism did not exist because the concept of race itself did not exist. People back then figured your skin color was from where you were born. Greeks obviously were white .
Posted on 05/17/2026 4:55:50 AM PDT by dennisw
Alec Baldwin didn't take kindly to Elon Musk disparaging Lupita Nyong'o's looks over her casting as Helen of Troy in the upcoming film The Odyssey based on Homer's epic poem.
The Tesla CEO grumbled that Nyong'o couldn't play Zeus's daughter, whose exceptional beauty sparked the 10-year Trojan War after she was taken to Troy by the Trojan prince Paris, according to Greek mythology.
Nyong'o will also be playing the role of Helen's sister Clytemnestra, who was beautiful but not enough to launch a thousand ships.
Baldwin defended Nyong'o via Instagram: 'Dear Elon… but she IS the most beautiful woman in the world,' alongside a photo of the 43-year-old Kenyan-Mexican actress.
The war of words started when political commentator and podcast host Matt Walsh wrote on X, 'Not one person on the planet actually thinks that Lupita Nyong'o is "the most beautiful woman in the world."'
Walsh, whose critics have accused him of promoting white supremacy and spreading racist conspiracy views, then directed his attack on the film's director.
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Baldwin’s comments are the Kiss of Death for this movie.
I was in a chat thread on a YouTube video.
One poster call her the “Helen of Detroit”.
I found it an amusing and funny comment.
Beautiful ... like a light bulb.
Back in Roman times racism did not exist because the concept of race itself did not exist. People back then figured your skin color was from where you were born. Greeks obviously were white .
Hell No! Of Detroit.
Nolan was absurdly DEI and “inclusive” for this movie, or it would not be eligible for the Academy Awards. My guess he would not get the financial backing/funding he needed, if this movie was not Academy Awards eligible.
This movie is now on my borrow the DVD, list. Bye bye Lupita Elliot whatever.
I don’t know what Musk was thinking. Black women are exempt from criticism. He committed a major fox pass.
Did he shoot anybody over this?
Another woke Hollywood flop I will never pay to see.
I won’t watch it for free on the plane either.
Not yet, but there’s still time.
A movie about Harriet Tubman should be made with a white woman playing Tubman.
The outcry would be enormous and the calls of racial appropriation would be a hot topic.
She has the look of a tribal woman who washes her hair under a urinating cow tied up outside her hut made of dung.
Thank you.
Now Hollyweird is making a movie with Owen Wilson playing “Fred Sanford”....
“She has the look of a tribal woman who washes her hair under a urinating cow tied up outside her hut made of dung.”
Brutal! BTW - In contrast Greeks, there are zero Greek actors in this movie about one the greatest Greek myths. Greece got ripped off by this DEI farce.
So tired of society’s minority-worship.
Elon Musk Slams Elliot Page’s Achilles Role Rumors in The Odyssey
Thank you, Mr. Musk.
For those, like me, who didn’t know who Elliot Page is...
Page is a short, scrawny biological female.
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