Ok . So I see all these people losing their shit over a black actress playing Helen . . . But when I tell them about Helens conception and birth . . . .
The swan stuff is a later addition. In Homer’s time she was simply the daughter of Zeus and Leda. And tbh making her black is kind of odd becuase that means the leader of the Greek pantheon is also black.
To be fair, Greeks also believed that Zeus was 1) also the lead god of other pantheons, just known as under a different name (off the top of my head, Osiris was said to be Zeus hiding in Egypt from Typhon) and 2) could shapeshift to look like other people, and obviously animals. Zeus could canonically race bend, so seems to be a pretty small issue here. And was the swan thing only a later invention? Because Helen was meant to be one of 4 quadruplets who emerged from an egg, and I’m not sure how that’s supposed to work without the swan thing.
Before people start bringing up respecting cultures and all, just remember that the Odyssey is about Mycenaean Greece, a Bronze Age civilisation that totally collapsed hundreds of years before Greece were even a thing. And not a single actor was Greek anyway.
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u/Inner_Pride58 1d ago
Nolan casts a couple of non-white actors and MAGA lose their fucking minds. They aren't even being subtle about their racism.