Academy Award-winning director Christopher Nolan has defended his casting decisions for his upcoming epic The Odyssey following online backlash.
With the release of the newest trailer last week, online chatter attacked the film for some of the casting decisions, such as rapper Travis Scott. Speaking with TIME in a lengthy profile, the acclaimed filmmaker said he wanted Scott as a symbol for stories like Homer’s The Odyssey being passed down as oral poetry.
“I cast him because I wanted to nod towards the idea that this story has been handed down as oral poetry, which is analogous to rap,” Nolan said.
In a TV teaser trailer clip, Scott is featured dressed as a storyteller while waxing poetic about the Trojan War.
“A war, a man, a trick — a trick to break the walls of Troy,” he says as various images flash across the screen. “It burning, screaming
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