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Elon Musk posted dozens of negative tweets about Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'
Elon Musk fired off numerous tweets about Christopher Nolan’s casting choices in The Odyssey, specifically Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy and Elliot Page as Sinon. The pair wound up having less than ten total minutes of screentime, combined.
Whether it be posting to his own feed or replying to other people’s tweets about the topic, Elon Musk — the richest man in the world, with a reported net worth that’s been teetering above and below $1 trillion lately — fired off dozens of tweets about The Odyssey.
Amazing pic.twitter.com/kfgSy25r3q
— Chris Lambert (@TheChrisLambert) May 15, 2026
The two actors that Elon Musk complained about being in The Odyssey had about ten minutes of combined screentime
Musk claimed that Nolan had “lost his integrity” by casting Nyong’o, an Academy Award-winning actress, as Helen of Troy, and Page — who worked with Nolan on Inception before his transition — as Sinon, a Greek soldier and Odysseus’s cousin who fought alongside him in the Trojan War. Musk and people sharing his grievances also wrongly believed Page was playing Achilles.
“Chris Nolan desecrated the Odyssey so that he would be eligible for an Academy Award,” Musk tweeted in one of his many tirades. “Who specifically is the a—— who added DEI lies to Academy Awards eligibility instead of it just being about making the best movie?”
He also replied “True” to the a tweet from conservative content creator Matt Walsh, who said that Nolan is a coward:
“Not one person on the planet actually thinks that Lupita Nyong’o is ‘the most beautiful woman in the world.’ But Christopher Nolan knows that he would be called racist if he gave ‘the most beautiful woman’ role to a white woman. Nolan is technically talented but a coward,” Walsh tweeted.
All of that uproar, however, wound up for being two characters that had, at most, a combined ten minutes of screentime in a 172-minute-long (2 hours and 52 minutes) movie. If each has character had about five minutes, that’s 2.9% of The Odyssey that those particular actors are in.
They got more hate than screentime 😭 pic.twitter.com/X6DVkhPmsy
— Fahhh (@yowtfahhh) July 17, 2026
Despite fingers-crossed predictions from Musk and his ilk that The Odyssey would go broke because Nolan’s gone woke, the film is on its way to a $200 million opening weekend and is being widely hailed as a masterpiece — its 96% Rotten Tomatoes score its the highest of Nolan’s career, beyond even The Dark Knight and his Best Picture-winning Oppenheimer.