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Why The Odyssey has caused so much controversy



In Elle magazine, Nyong’o gave her own pithy response to the attacks. “This is a mythological story,” she said. “Our cast is representative of the world.” But some people have pointed out that this isn’t wholly true, lamenting the lack of Greeks among the actors. Greeks had been “left out by Hollywood, again and with no explanation, from our foundational mythologies and epics”, wrote a Greek-British journalist, Chris Cotonou, in The Guardian. “If your film sets out to represent the world, wouldn’t it be obvious to fill one space at this large, wonderfully multicultural table with the people who are most authentically connected to the source?”



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