Greek-Culture News Site Rips Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ for ‘Excluding Greeks’ from DEI Cast

Hollywood director Christopher Nolan is being ripped by a Greek-interest publication for not having any Greek actors in his adaptation of The Odyssey.

Nolan’s film is based on the 2,800-year-old epic poem told by Homer, which follows the fantastic journey of the heroic king of Ithaca, Odysseus. It is one of the oldest known works of literature in history and was composed by a Greek man — in Greek, for his fellow Greeks. Yet Nolan’s film, toasted by Hollywood access media for its “diversity,” doesn’t have any Greeks in it at all. And the Greek City Times — an Australia-based news site “dedicated to promoting Hellenism and serving the global Greek diaspora” — is calling out the hypocrisy of that creative decision.

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“For years, Hollywood has lectured audiences about representation, inclusion, cultural sensitivity and the moral necessity of diversity in storytelling,” the paper writes in its critique of