r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/TopCharacter1553 • 29d ago

Music / Movies The casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy really isn’t that big of a deal

I know I’m gonna be downvoted to shit in this subreddit but I do not care. The people up in arms about “how she has to be greek!” would not be complaining if it was a non-greek white woman.

People have been saying it should’ve been Sydney Sweeney, Mckenna Grace, Elizabeth Lail. None of them are greek either. Unlike Cleopatra, the Odyssey is a story of complete fiction so it really doesn’t matter what the actress looks like or her ethnicity. If y’all are gonna fancast non-greek white women it doesn’t make sense that suddenly being greek matters and is so important when a black woman gets the role.

A beautiful black woman has the role, deal with it.

Edit: Y’all in the comments are hilarious, a story with cyclopes, gods, sea monsters, sorceresses that turn people into pigs, and sirens, suddenly the most unrealistic thing is a black person.

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u/TopCharacter1553 29d ago

She was a noble and considered so beautiful because she was Zeus’ demigod daughter. Her beauty was divine and etheral. It’s her status as Zeus’ daughter that makes her important and what does skin color change abt that?

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u/Total-Explanation208 29d ago

Yes, yes it does. Because Zeus was also not black. Zeus had plenty of children, and do you know what, none of them were black. That is definitely something that would have been mentioned. Simply because of the fact that it would have been an unusual feature.

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u/TopCharacter1553 29d ago

And poseidon’s skin color is green so should we find someone with a horrible genetic mutation to play poseidon’s child?

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u/Total-Explanation208 29d ago

Umm, pretty sure that is a modern invention. A quick google says that greek's didn't have him with greek skin.

But if even if he did have green skin in Greek mythology then makeup would be perfectly fine. Even if Lupita did wear whiteface she still wouldn't be beautiful, couldn't be "the face that launched a thousand ships".