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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(13,483 posts)
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 10:34 AM Feb 3

Elon Musk is disparaging Christopher Nolan because his upcoming movie might feature a Black actress as Helen of Troy

As moviegoers await the Imax epic that is Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey, some are already ripping apart the film.

Chiming in on speculation that Lupita Nyong’o will play Helen of Troy in the star-studded adaptation of Homer’s epic poem, which premieres July 17, Elon Musk questioned the writer/director’s integrity.

Responding on X to someone who argued the Helen in the book is “fair-skinned, blonde, and [the face that launched a thousand ships’ because she was so beautiful that men started a war over her,” calling the unconfirmed casting “an insult to the author,” Musk took aim at Nolan.

“Chris Nolan has lost his integrity,” wrote Musk on the platform he owns.

https://deadline.com/2026/02/elon-musk-mad-the-odyssey-helen-troy-black-1236704956/

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Elon Musk is disparaging Christopher Nolan because his upcoming movie might feature a Black actress as Helen of Troy (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Feb 3 OP
Nazi say what? eom SalamanderSleeps Feb 3 #1
Fuck off racist malaise Feb 3 #2
Musk is still in his Apartheid mindset sakabatou Feb 3 #3
Says the guy who was too evil / boring for even Epstein newdeal2 Feb 3 #4
Spoken like a true NAZI. Kid Berwyn Feb 3 #5
why on earth would the daughter of Zeus and a Spartan be blonde and fair-skinned? eShirl Feb 3 #6
For the same reason Jesus is EdmondDantes_ Feb 3 #12
An insult to the author? patphil Feb 3 #7
Back in Homer's day - in a play, Helen would have been portrayed by a boy... haele Feb 3 #13
And Odysseus never visits Epstein Island Johonny Feb 3 #8
So typical of the South African Nazi dalton99a Feb 3 #9
He would have DIED in Elizabethan England leftstreet Feb 3 #10
Dear Elon: Santa Claus and Helen of Troy are fictional, make believe entities. They have no "white" skin in the game. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Feb 3 #11
Orson Welles and many other white actors have portrayed nonwhite Othello. Racism? Ping Tung Feb 3 #14
Fuck off musk. spanone Feb 3 #15
Eloon SkuM is the last person who should Hey Joe Feb 3 #16

newdeal2

(5,069 posts)
4. Says the guy who was too evil / boring for even Epstein
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 10:42 AM
Feb 3

He is changing the topic because of Epstein and the French raid on X. Nothing like some culture war clickbait bs to distract people.

patphil

(8,848 posts)
7. An insult to the author?
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 10:49 AM
Feb 3

Homer's been dead a while now, so I don't think he gives a shit about who plays Helen. Especially since the book is most likely based on an oral version of the story.
This controversial casting is most likely being done for the publicity. As they used to say in Hollywood, "there's no such thing as bad publicity".

haele

(15,212 posts)
13. Back in Homer's day - in a play, Helen would have been portrayed by a boy...
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 11:20 AM
Feb 3

And looking at most of the surviving friezes and pottery, the ideal beauty would have been for a large nose and lips, a thick unibrow, and kinky or curly frizzy hair done up in tight braids or twists.
They would have been North African or Middle Eastern/Turkyic looking people at the time, dark haired and very "tanned".

Only the Northern Greeks, the Macedonians, had blonde (or light brunette) hair and more Celtic features.

Modern dude-bros and KKK types got to ditch the Victorian Art and Comic Book depictions of Classical Literature and get with the history....

leftstreet

(39,555 posts)
10. He would have DIED in Elizabethan England
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 11:08 AM
Feb 3

Imagine his social media feed when only men played the roles of women at the village Shakespeare production

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(1,953 posts)
11. Dear Elon: Santa Claus and Helen of Troy are fictional, make believe entities. They have no "white" skin in the game.
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 11:11 AM
Feb 3

Being named Elon, maybe you should learn how El, Eloah, Elyon were created.

Ping Tung

(4,244 posts)
14. Orson Welles and many other white actors have portrayed nonwhite Othello. Racism?
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 11:30 AM
Feb 3

Critics and other literati still debate whether Shakespeare's play is racist or anti racist.

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