The world\u2019s richest man can\u2019t stop posting about how Lupita Nyong\u2019o was chosen to play an imaginary woman<\/p>\n
It was the casting choice that launched a thousand meltdowns. The Oscar-winning actor Lupita Nyong\u2019o was confirmed<\/a> as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan\u2019s film adaptation of Homer\u2019s The Odyssey, and the usual suspects immediately started squealing that the fall of western civilization was nigh.<\/p>\n Elon Musk, a man in possession of the world\u2019s thinnest skin and fattest bank account, is obviously among the aggrieved. Musk started moaning about The Odyssey<\/a> in January, when it was rumoured that Nyong\u2019o had the role. Since a 12 May interview with Nolan in Time magazine made this casting official, Musk hasn\u2019t stopped whining; he\u2019s spent roughly a week<\/a> attacking Nyong\u2019o on X and amplifying other angry bigots. His main arguments appear to be that this is a historically inaccurate rendering of a mythological poem; Nyong\u2019o, who was named People magazine\u2019s \u201cMost Beautiful Woman\u201d in 2014, is not sufficiently beautiful; and the casting of a Black woman in a movie nobody is forcing him to watch is inextricably intertwined with a leftwing plot to undermine western society.<\/p>\n Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The world\u2019s richest man can\u2019t stop posting about how Lupita Nyong\u2019o was chosen to play an imaginary woman It was the casting choice that launched a thousand meltdowns. The Oscar-winning actor Lupita Nyong\u2019o was confirmed as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan\u2019s film adaptation of Homer\u2019s The Odyssey, and the usual suspects immediately started squealing … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}