Elon Musk has again weighed in on Christopher Nolan‘s upcoming big-budget adaptation of The Odyssey, this time agreeing with a racist comment made by a far-right journalist who criticized the casting of Oscar-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy.
Nolan’s epic follow-up to his Oscar-winning juggernaut Oppenheimer is set for wide release in July. In the lead-up, the film has been heavily hyped while remaining shrouded in mystery. A cover story in Time magazine this week has revealed that Nyong’o has indeed been cast as Helen of Troy — who is described in Homer’s classic as the most beautiful woman in the world and “the face that launched a thousand ships” into war. The film also stars Matt Damon as Odysseus, Tom Holland as Telemachus, Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Robert Pattinson as Antinous, and Zendaya as Athena.