{"id":2265140,"date":"2026-02-03T18:32:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2265140"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:32:33","slug":"whoopi-goldberg-sunny-hostin-slam-racist-elon-musk-over-the-odyssey-casting-uproar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/whoopi-goldberg-sunny-hostin-slam-racist-elon-musk-over-the-odyssey-casting-uproar\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg & Sunny Hostin Slam \u2018Racist\u2019 Elon Musk Over \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Casting Uproar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whoopi Goldberg<\/a> went on an all-out tear over Elon Musk<\/a>\u2018s reaction to the rumored casting of Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong\u2019o<\/a> as Helen of Troy<\/a> in director Christopher Nolan<\/a> upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey<\/a>. After Musk wrote on X (formerly Twitter<\/a>) that Nolan \u201chas lost his integrity\u201d in response to a report that Nyong\u2019o, a Black woman, was cast in the role that is, as written by Homer<\/a>, described as being a woman with fair skin. \u201cI don\u2019t know if you realize this, but Lupita is also considered one of the world\u2019s most beautiful women, so I\u2019m not sure what you\u2019re trying to say,\u201d Goldberg…<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whoopi Goldberg went on an all-out tear over Elon Musk\u2018s reaction to the rumored casting of Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong\u2019o as Helen of Troy in director Christopher Nolan upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey. After Musk wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that Nolan \u201chas lost his integrity\u201d in response to a report that Nyong\u2019o, a Black […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2265141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2265140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Whoopi-Goldberg-Sunny-Hostin-Slam-\u2018Racist-Elon-Musk-Over.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265142,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265140\/revisions\/2265142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}