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Domingo rolled a clip of podcaster Chris Cella complaining about Lupita Nyong\u2019o<\/a>, who plays Helen of Troy in the film. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cCasting a Black woman as Helen of Troy is like casting a Black man to play Abraham Lincoln or a white dude to play MLK,\u201d he said during an interview on the far-right One America News channel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Domingo was ready with a fact check. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWell, not exactly, because MLK was real. And Helen of Troy is as real as Harry Potter,\u201d the actor said. \u201cBut I\u2019ll be honest, I agree with that strange little dude. Helen of Troy shouldn\u2019t have been played by a Black woman. She should have been played by a Black man \u2015 specifically me!\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The audience cheered the line from the prolific actor, who has appeared in more than a dozen films in the past three years alone, including \u201cMichael,\u201d \u201cDisclosure Day\u201d and \u201cThe Running Man.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Domingo offered an alternative to conservatives outraged by the film\u2019s cast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI have a message for everyone who was upset about diversity and \u2018The Odyssey\u2019: If you want to see a film with a cast of all white people who are cursed by the gods, the Melania movie is currently streaming,\u201d he said, referring to the much-maligned documentary<\/a> about first lady Melania Trump<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n See more in his Monday night monologue: <\/p>\n<\/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.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Domingo rolled a clip of podcaster Chris Cella complaining about Lupita Nyong\u2019o, who plays Helen of Troy in the film. \u201cCasting a Black woman as Helen of Troy is like casting a Black man to play Abraham Lincoln or a white dude to play MLK,\u201d he said during an interview on the far-right One America […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2510850,"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":[25172],"tags":[345286,345300,23060,31122],"class_list":["post-2510849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-colman-domingo","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-melania-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Colman-Domingo-Trolls-MAGA-With-Epic-Melania-Trump-Reminder.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510849","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=2510849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510851,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510849\/revisions\/2510851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2510850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}