Nolan won Best Director and Best Picture for “Oppenheimer” at the 2024 Academy Awards. Getty Images Musk agreed with one conservative commentator who suggested Nolan would be called racist if he gave the role to a white woman instead. The Hollywood Reporter was taken aback by the American accents used in the trailer, writing, “Everybody sounds like they’re from Ohio.” Nolan also revealed to Time that rapper Travis Scott will be playing a Greek bard. Nolan defended the choice as an acknowledgment of poetic tradition. Lupita Nyong’o, left in “Black Panther,” will play Helen of Troy and Helen’s sister Clytemnestra in “The Odyssey.” ©Walt Disney Co./courtesy Everett / Everett Collection “I cast him because I wanted to nod towards the idea that this story has been handed down as oral poetry, which is analogous to rap,” Nolan told Time Magazine. “When I edge into territory I fear might trigger prickliness, he shrugs, says, ‘Fair enough,’ and delves earnestly into production decisions that have launched a thousand Reddit posts,” the Time journalist said of his time interviewing Nolan. “‘The Odyssey’ is arguably the biggest film of Nolan’s career,” Time touted. “It may also be the summer blockbuster the struggling entertainment industry needs right now.”