Why Isn’t The Left Boycotting The Odyssey Over Nolan’s Casting Choices?

The Odyssey is taking hits from conservatives, rightly so, for its “woke” casting. Some of Christopher Nolan’s casting choices in the movie are indeed odd and distracting. (Why does the Bard look like a Rastafarian?)

But it’s leftists who should be even more upset about the people chosen for key roles in this movie.

Sure, the movie checks all the diversity boxes, which, according to our friends at Unleash Prosperity, is mandatory if you want your film to be considered for Best Picture in today’s leftist-controlled Hollywood. So, Nolan appeased the left’s diversity gods with a cast that, according to one count, is 50% Caucasian, 24% Latino and Hispanic, 12% Black, and 9% Asian American.  And, as icing on the diversity cake, there’s a transgender in a key role.

But look who isn’t represented. Greeks.

Think about it. The Odyssey is a Greek myth. Written by a Greek about Greeks for Greeks.

And yet, the principal cast includes no Greeks!

Let’s review:

• Odysseus is from Cambridge, Mass.
• His wife, Penelope, is a Brooklyn, N.Y., native.
• Odysseus’ son, Telemachus, was born in Kingston Upon Thames, England.
• Athena is from Oakland, Calif.
• The Bard was born in Houston, Texas.
• Sinon isn’t from Greece, (s)he’s from Nova Scotia.
• Antinous is a Londoner.
• Helen hails from Mexico City.
• Eumaeus is from Bogotá, Colombia.
• Circe was born in Nottingham, England.
• Agamemnon? New York City.
• Polites is from Cardiff, Wales.
• Menelaus was born and raised in Washington, D.C.

Nolan couldn’t even bother to cast a Greek as Cyclops, instead turning the role over to a Santa Monica, Calif., native.

The outrage!

And Calypso, who is the only African native in the cast, is a white South African.

Outrage upon outrage!!

Were there no Greek actors or actresses worthy of being cast in a film based on the most treasured piece of Greek literature? Did Nolan even look? (We aren’t the only ones who noticed this.)

This is cultural appropriation, people, one of the left’s Cardinal Sins!

Nolan is making a killing on the backs of the Greeks! Has he apologized? Is he donating any of his massive earnings to Greek causes? Will he promise to cast Greeks in future films?

And why, oh why, is the left silent about this epic injustice? Why are there no calls for a boycott? Why isn’t Nolan being canceled?

AOC, the country needs your boycott leadership now more than ever!!

–  Written by the I&I Editorial Board

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