Elon Musk and Matt Walsh claim Christopher Nolan is pandering by casting Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy. But this uproar has little to do with Homer and everything to do with Black beauty entering a mythic space White grievance still thinks it owns. iPINIONS argues that Nolan didn’t invent Lupita’s beauty. He merely cast what the world had already certified.
Read my full take on Substack:
https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/elon-musk-thinks-lupita-nyongo-isnt
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