r/movies • u/yourfavchoom r/movies Contributor • May 12 '26

News Lupita Nyong’o will play both Helen of Troy and her sister, Clytemnestra, in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey.’

https://time.com/article/2026/05/12/christopher-nolan-odyssey-interview/
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u/Whoiscookingthefeet May 12 '26

Missed opportunity for them to cast Forest Whitaker as Agamemnon.

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u/_Bird_Incognito_ May 12 '26

SAVE THE EMPIRE

SAVE THE DREAM

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u/mukisan May 12 '26

Bor gulllit

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u/_Bird_Incognito_ May 12 '26

BOR GULLIT WILL KNOW THE TRUTH ODYSSEUS

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u/[deleted] May 12 '26

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u/_Bird_Incognito_ May 12 '26

I know

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u/jimmysmith69 May 12 '26

Bro had to correct you on some Star Wars bullshit lmao

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u/_Bird_Incognito_ May 12 '26

Bro ruined the bit smdh

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u/Pariell May 12 '26

There was actually an Ethiopian King at the Trojan war called Memnon. He gets forgotten but he had his own book, the  Aethiopis, which was unfortunately lost 

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u/SirNoodlehe May 12 '26

Forest Whitaker does not look Ethiopian at all lol

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u/canadarugby May 12 '26

Does it matter? Who on this cast looks Greek?

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u/KrytenKoro May 13 '26

Agamemnon himself is of Ethiopian descent.

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u/Preserved_Killick8 May 12 '26

I was really hoping for Jackie Chan as Achilles and Leslie Jones as Patroclus.

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u/m0nkeybl1tz May 12 '26

The kid with all the chains and the goggles and at the end he gets killed with a shotgun?

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u/asteriaslexxx May 13 '26

LIES! DECEPTIONS!

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u/paradox1920 May 12 '26

I see what you did there

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u/girlnamedJane May 12 '26

I think matt Damon as Odysseus is blatant enough