After the casting that launched a thousand trolls, Lupita Nyong’o isn’t wasting her energy on acknowledging haters. The Oscar winner recently shared her response to racially-fueled online criticisms of her casting as Helen of Troy and Helen’s sister Clytemnestra in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, an adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic. “This is a mythological […]
After the casting that launched a thousand trolls, Lupita Nyong’o isn’t wasting her energy on acknowledging haters. The Oscar winner recently shared her response to racially-fueled online criticisms of her casting as Helen of Troy and Helen’s sister Clytemnestra in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, an adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic. “This is a mythological […]
Lupita Nyong’o is addressing the backlash to her casting as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.” Nyong’o plays Helen of Troy, the Greek mythological character who was thought of as the most beautiful woman in the world and is often referred to as “the face that launched 1,000 ships” because her marriage to […]
Lupita Nyong’o is addressing the backlash to her casting as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.” Nyong’o plays Helen of Troy, the Greek mythological character who was thought of as the most beautiful woman in the world and is often referred to as “the face that launched 1,000 ships” because her marriage to […]