Elon Musk bashed Oppenheimer Director Christopher Nolan over the casting for his upcoming film, The Odyssey, saying the director tapped Lupita Nyong’o to play Helen of Troy because “he wants the awards.”
“Q: Why is Christopher Nolan like many other directors so keen to race swap white characters? A: Quotas and awards,” one X user wrote in a Tuesday post, to which Musk replied by taking to the comment section to assert, “He wants the awards.”
The SpaceX CEO also commented on an X post from Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, who wrote, “Not one person on the planet actually thinks that Lupita Nyong’o is ‘the most beautiful woman in the world.’”
“But Christopher Nolan knows that he would be called racist if he gave ‘the most beautiful woman’ role to a white woman,” Walsh added. “Nolan is technically talented but a coward. Too afraid to do anything that even slightly challenges the spirit
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