‘Odyssey’ Star Goes Full Woke Promoting Film

“The Odyssey” is a woke disaster, like the worst films of the Cancel Culture era.

Nonsense! Director Christopher Nolan is one of our finest filmmakers, and rumors of the film’s woke elements are just that.

Rumors.

The truth exists somewhere in between, but the latest dispatch from the publicity front won’t help.

“The Odyssey” co-star Lupita Nyong’o earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her screen debut in 2013’s “12 Years a Slave.” She’s attractive by all modern measures and few dispute her acting abilities.

She’s also an unconventional pick to play Helen of Troy in Nolan’s “The Odyssey.” Previous Homer adaptations have cast a beautiful blonde woman in the role.

That casting decision stirred up a social media hornet’s nest in recent months. The addition of trans actor Elliot Page to the cast magnified the matter, at least in the digital realm.

It’s woke! Woke is back!

Hold on.

Nolan hasn’t been a woke director by any means. His 2012 movie “The Dark Knight Rises” skewered an Occupy Wall Street-type uprising.

Yet the label has stuck to “The Odyssey,” fairly or unfairly. Now, Nyong’o just poured fuel on the fire.

The following publicity snippet finds the actress answering what she might press Homer about regarding his epic yarn, a revered Greek literary classic.

Her answer is from Woke 101 School.

“What 1 thing would you say to Homer?”

Lupita Nyong’o (Helen Of Troy): “How do you feel about the screen time given to women?”

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“So, Homer, how do you feel about this screen time being given to these women, considering how little time you spent with them?” the actress asked with a smile on her face. “Remember us?”

This is Peak Woke, demanding that one of the oldest examples of literature measure up to 2026 social mores. It’s likely tongue in cheek, but she knows how the comment will be received.

It’s not remotely helpful, funny or convincing.

The clip will likely go viral. And, ultimately, the brand Nolan has constructed will be able to withstand another woke-ian stain on the film’s publicity tour.

The film is set for a July 17 release date.

Box office soothsayers predict “The Odyssey” will make at least $100 million in its opening weekend, and the film will be embraced internationally as well.

For some films, this kind of woke publicity can hurt their box office potential. We saw that with “Snow White,” the 2025 bomb that was crushed by a wave of woke nonsense, from the ramblings of its star, Rachel Zegler, to bending over backwards to avoid dwarves in the finished film.

This is different.

Nolan is the biggest director in film at the moment. He’s bigger than Steven Spielberg, and likely Quentin Tarantino, although the “Pulp Fiction” auteur works at a slower pace.

“The Odyssey” will likely shrug off these comments and crush the box office. If the film under-performs at any level, some will point a large, heavy finger at moments like this.