{"id":2427220,"date":"2026-05-21T23:21:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2427220"},"modified":"2026-05-21T23:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:21:43","slug":"lupita-nyongo-responds-to-racist-backlash-over-odyssey-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lupita-nyongo-responds-to-racist-backlash-over-odyssey-casting\/","title":{"rendered":"Lupita N’yong’o Responds To Racist Backlash Over ‘Odyssey’ Casting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First off, she told Elle magazine<\/a> in an interview published Thursday, \u201cI was so deeply honored to be entrusted with the role. I mean, she is iconic. What more can I say?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Musk has been bemoaning N\u2019yongo\u2019s casting for months. The manchild mogul, as well as conservative pundit Matt Walsh, recently griped<\/a> that it\u2019s unfair that N\u2019yongo, who is of Kenyan and Mexican descent, was cast as the most beautiful woman in ancient Greece \u2014 because, they argued, actor Sydney Sweeney would never be cast as \u201cthe most beautiful woman in Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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N\u2019yong\u2019o didn\u2019t comment directly on Musk\u2019s reaction to her casting, but her response centered on a simple fact about the source material.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is a mythological story,\u201d she reminded her interviewer for Elle. \u201cOur cast is representative of the world. I\u2019m not spending my time thinking of a defense. The criticism will exist whether I engage with it or not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nolan, meanwhile, told Elle he was \u201cabsolutely desperate\u201d to have N\u2019yong\u2019o as his Helen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe strength and the poise were so important to the character of Helen,\u201d the director said. \u201cAnd Lupita makes it look effortless. I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a tremendous amount of discipline and training that goes into projecting that kind of poise and feeling the emotion bubbling beneath the character, the layers of the character right there underneath.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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First off, she told Elle magazine in an interview published Thursday, \u201cI was so deeply honored to be entrusted with the role. I mean, she is iconic. What more can I say?\u201d Musk has been bemoaning N\u2019yongo\u2019s casting for months. The manchild mogul, as well as conservative pundit Matt Walsh, recently griped that it\u2019s unfair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[438509],"class_list":["post-2427220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-lupita-nyong"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Lupita-Nyongo-Responds-To-Racist-Backlash-Over-Odyssey-Casting.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427220","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=2427220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427222,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427220\/revisions\/2427222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}