Elon Musk criticizes Lupita Nyong’o casting in Nolan’s The Odyssey
Elon Musk said Christopher Nolan "has lost his integrity" if Lupita Nyong'o is cast as Helen of Troy in Nolan's film The Odyssey. Musk repeated the criticism three months after making the same claim and tied the casting choice to film industry diversity guidelines. Lupita Nyong'o is an Oscar-winning actress, and Helen of Troy is the mythic figure whose abduction triggers the Trojan War in Homer's epics. The dispute matters because Nolan's high-profile adaptation will shape how a major retelling of a classical epic represents identity and historical imagination.
I am sorry but elon has been crashing out for nearly a week about *lupita nyong’o* being cast as a famously beautiful person????
Micah846elon has reached a level of racism at this point that probably has other racists going “wow that’s pretty racist man”
Ser T, Trader of Rogues, Guarder of Veils87How dare one of the most beautiful women in the modern world be cast as one of the most beautiful women in history. 🙄
Green Hombre60Cleopatra looked exactly like Liz Taylor. - Elon Musk
Andy Beaton57If Zeus in the form a swan fucks a woman and their child is born from an egg, it's obvious the child has to be white. That's just science, innit?
Tim Pierce42my "it's ridiculous to imagine that a Black woman could be considered the most beautiful woman in history" t-shirt is answering a lot of questions, etc. etc.
Cor32I don't personally care about Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, but I hate that Elon and his hitlerite legions are *making me* care about defending this film, actually. If I do see it, I look forward to Lupita Nyong'o's performance. I'm sure she'll do a wonderful job.
Amber32Wasn't Troy a Hittite city? Of course Helen could've been black. How fucking dumb is Elon?
Big DeVito Energy29pretty unlikely for an ancient Greek to have blue eyes but I don't see him screeching about Matt Damon.
Nixified20Right? She is STUNNING, my reaction (as a straight gal) was oh, yeah, absolutely she is Helen.
🏳️🌈☽✩☾🏳️🌈19Everyone is burying the lede on this: she is double-cast as Clytemnestra, raising the tantalizing possibility that we will get to see Lupita Nyong'o axe-murder Agamemnon in cold blood in his bath. FILM IT, NOLAN, PROVE YOU AREN'T A COWARD!
Generic Poster14His turn on Better Call Saul made me think Tony Dalton would make an amazing Odysseus.
fluttermouse 🦇14The movie is going to be mediocre and it's going to be because of the casting. Specifically the casting of Matt Damon as Odysseus. I have been pissed off since I found out.
M, the other white meat11Wait until he hears about where Andromeda is from.
Onno11How to be an Alpha Male(TM): *checks notes* 'Be the most fragile, entitled motherfucker ever and wallow in sorrowful loneliness'
Zeroisanumber10Dumb, racist nerds like Musk think there weren't any Black people in Greece during the pre-Classical era. Presumably because they're too stupid to look at a map.
Helena Athena Isabella10Fun fact! Black people existed in Ancient Greece. I wish all bigots a very die mad about it.
William Butler Yeets8i got so accustomed to not knowing what elon thinks about anything over here, i kinda forgot that apparently being the richest person in the world cannot save you from being too online
Ken Yee8THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE FEBRUARY variety.com/2026/film/ne...
timscurtin.bsky.social8“Desecrating Homer!” This jerkoff listened to a podcast about the Iliad at 2x speed.
Dani7Yeah. Not enough clown shoes in his closet imo.
Generic Poster7Casting a pasty Bostonite as the king of Ithaca seems more out of line. Maybe he's just mad they didn't cast someone who actually hatched from an egg, like Helen did?
Wes7Even better that Homer probably wasn’t even one guy and certainly wasn’t white lmfao
Oggie6I wonder if they're going to give odysseus red hair. Personally I am not planning on seeing the movie because nolan hates audible dialogue with a passion and I will wait for subtitles, but getting so upset about Helen being gorgeous and not looking like a wine bottle (rimshot) definitely is silly
Neil Degrassi Highson6I want to see Musk describe three of his favorite parts from The Odyssey without looking anything up or using AI. "Um, well... You know, it's... Um, actually, wow... Really the whole odyssey is interesting... Everything Homer does in it is, like, so good."
Lyse6So much to unpack. But can we start with “desecrating Homer”?
. . . Whippets6Imagine being so racist you can't appreciate beauty.
Mike Hutchinson4"Everything was white. Look at the statues!"
David Eoll4she's drop-dead gorgeous, to an extant that it says something about the people who don't think so.
rmadriz.bsky.social4Good to know the richest man in the world has nothing better to do than to be mad a famously beautiful person is cast to play a famously beautiful person
Caffeinated Daydreamer4Also, "desecrating Homer" as if this dude's ever actually read the odyssey. Mfer is just mad about black people. We need to send this guy to Mars.
AiddonValentine4And knowing Nolan, he had no idea what Musk is yelling about
🇨🇦 I believe that with each other, we are stronger than we know 🍁4According to Homer, her father is Zeus. Like, the literal king of the Greek gods, Zeus. The swan/egg thing might have come later, but Homer is quite clear about her parentage. Why does Elon think that the child of a literal god can't be Black? Wait. Don't answer that.
Incomplete Machine3my god. 'desecrating homer'. Its...not even history. its a story with gods in it. its historical fantasy. and for fucks sake, she could have looked like literally anyone because she probably didn't exist IRL. I have no words for how dumb this man is.
David Savage3Tbh I bet Elon has not actually read Homer.
Katy3Shitheads. I can't stand Elon. Remember when he said POTUS was all over the Epstein files? And now he's on Air Force One with the president. I don't know how anyone trusts him about anything. Plus he's an obvious racist. There are few people in this world I disrespect more than Elon Musk.
OG_McDuck3A famously beautiful FICTIONAL person, no less. But somehow they will still tell you that Jesus looked like Ted Nugent.
Élodie Marissa3Elon Musk is so racist that I'm pretty sure all his pillowcases are white with eyeholes in them.
Big DeVito Energy3first Odysseus with a masshole accent, tho
Geoffrey Hoytsman2So, if/when this movie succeeds. You know they’ll switch and claim it’s not woke.
NutMeg 2A famously mildly attractive in a good light person, according to Eric. 😄
Scott Cory2Beautiful and supremely talented actor taking on the character of a beautiful and supremely talented woman. Elon's glacier of accumulated snowflake grievances against women and people of African origin are all triggered.
Trump/GOP=Nazis. Stand w🇺🇦🏳️🌈🇬🇪🇵🇸🇨🇦🇪🇺🇨🇭2She probably turned him down for a date. Some guys just can’t take no.
redstormpopcorn2he's a dipshit racist with a busted dick, I wouldn't expect anything else
Todd Knarr2Da fuq? Consider the area. Nyong'o is probably closer in appearance than anyone in that role before. But then, the complainers couldn't find Greece on a map with a full navigation team assisting.
empty seats can't melt supreme court justices2also like who cares if someone in a fictional story was a certain race or not? I also don't believe this because people crash out on nonwhite people in space movies they are just racist
LostBoyJim2The idea that casting a black woman is "desecrating" the Odyssey really gives the game away.
Being a conservative means you constantly have to argue that objectively beautiful people are not. Today it’s Lupita Nyong’o. A few years ago it was Zendaya. Fucking insane. And yes of course they’re both black women
Oliver Willis109Like… these women are beautiful. That’s not opinion. That’s scientific fact.
Mike Krumrei4Considering what passes for the beauty standard on the conservative end of things, their opinions are immediately invalid.
Tony Serrata 🇺🇦3Being Convervative = being a Nazi. Let's just call em what they are. Racist, vile Nazis. So much of their ideology mirrors WW2 Nazis which isn't shocking given that Nazis derived their hatemongering from our confederate era racists and others in the US at the time.
grahamsingssongs.bsky.social2It's crazy. I waited on her like 10 years ago in New York, she was the most beautiful person I've ever seen. She absolutely glowed.
“The reason why Elon Musk has tweeted repeatedly about the casting of Lupita Nyong’o is more straightforward: Musk is just mad a black lady is playing Helen of Troy. The whole thing is a pretty perfect distillation of the tendencies of the so-called ‘woke right.’” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-weird-...
A Man Has No Name 🇺🇦9Zero chance Elon has read Homer. But it is a chance to post my favorite meme.
Timani Tunduwani4It's important to understand his roots in Apartheid South Africa. For those unaware, apartheid is the ugly cousin of the Confederacy and that's what shaped him, it's just coming out more Understanding the liberation of South Africa will explain to you exactly who he is and why
Neil Suits3“WTF do I care what color Helen is? I’m blind!” Homer
Siebznet3How many words need be spilled to say "they are gutter racists and that's literally all they've ever been"
KayForsaken3Hamilton, The Little Mermaid, Helen of Troy. So what. They cast Jesus as a white man. Woke is better than hypocrite.
I don’t even know what this latest cultural grievance is, specifically, but I’m guessing it has something to do with a woman, or a person of color, or a woman of color, being cast in a role. And white nationalist/misogynist Elon Musk doesn’t like that. I’ll look right after posting this…
Tom Joscelyn17Yup, yup…racism. But also a trans actor has been cast in the film. I should’ve thought of that when assessing why white nationalist/misogynist/transphobe Elon Musk would object to the film. Should’ve included his transphobia… www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...
Tara Vern6If only Elon had a close trans relative he may have more empathy and connection with the trans experience…. Oh never mind
cdpositive 5Evidently it's been going on for a while.... and Elon still doesn't know Jesus wasn't white. bsky.app/profile/ronf...
sageboomer.bsky.social3Elon and his brother Kimball entered the US illegally. www.instagram.com/reels/DEIX6r...
Mary Hess3I wasn’t planning on watching Christopher Nolan’s epic adventure. It is on the list now! 🤣
SuperChill2Interesting he has no complaints with the Empire being almost entirely white.
My feelings on the "Odyssey"/Lupita discourse are three: 1. The ESSENCE of oral storytelling is/was adapting tales for the audience and the context. 2. I buy Lupita Nyong'o as a woman armies would go to war for. Shrug. 3. EVERY single person whining about Lupita as Helen is a garbage person.
Daniel Fienberg 25I guarantee you that there were nights when "Homer" was reciting "The Odyssey" and he looked out at the audience and saw a sea of olive skin and varied features that his description of Helen of Troy was not, "Um, she was a pale cute blonde with a button nose and a body that wouldn't quit."
Sam2Hard agree with the third point. Does Elon Think every one in ancient Greece had blue eyes and blond hair... Cause that would be a no, dude.
I'm sorry to weigh in on a controversy caused by obvious shitheads who are dying to cause controversy, but the first time I ever saw Lupita Nyong'o I literally thought "oh, that's one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen in my life." And then, you know, 12 Years a Slave happened. But still
Chris Conroy8I literally said the same thing and I am GAY so like what are we talking about here, it's basically as demonstrable a fact of the physical universe as gravity
Hare 🍉4You'd think the looksmaxxing bone structure enthusiasts would appreciate such an elegantly proportioned face, but they are predictably full of shit.
Conor Duffy2Yeah, chuds are gonna have to work real fucking hard to convince me she’s not ridiculously beautiful. I can absolutely imagine someone launching a thousand ships for her.
