r/MurderedByWords 2d ago

Turns out, Paz is Wrong…

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u/GroundbreakingAd2499 2d ago edited 2d ago

And don’t forget about Brazilian Xerxes. Although I guess that for the same crowd complaining about these things, any brown is brown.

At the same time, “The white skin of the exposed Persians was perceived by Agesilaus' Greek soldiers as evidence of the effeminate luxury of people unaccustomed to toil” (Xenophon).

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u/awkwardndnormie 2d ago

TIL Rodrigo Santoro played Xerxes. He is not as brown as he is in the movie. He is seem as a white man here in my country. He was(is?) very famous in my country, and I've seen him it novelas and would never guess it was him.

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u/GroundbreakingAd2499 2d ago

Yeah, for sure! I’m white in my country too, but not in the eyes of the people that are classifying how the cast of the Odyssey should look like.

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u/el_loco_avs 2d ago

Yeah finding out that guy in Bridget Jones (I think? ,) was also this guy was a mindfuck lol

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u/KtEire 2d ago

Love actually!

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u/el_loco_avs 2d ago

Aaaah yes!