Elliot Page is Tranzan! pic.twitter.com/ePZbzoBlQW

— Dr. Clown, PhD (@DrClownPhD) May 17, 2026

DannyDuberstein said:

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She's miscast because she is both mid as it gets and black. If she was hot and black, she's still miscast. But mid and black is a double-down. I mean, if they had DJ Qualls play Shaft, no one would be going "well, if he was a lot more cool and imposing, it would work." Nope, she is bad for the role because she is black. She is also bad for the role because she is mid. It's okay to say it.

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This is all accurate. Similar to what this post is using to make the point.

"Why does an actor's race matter?!"

Ok… now imagine it was this: pic.twitter.com/9TfhzHXhMS

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 16, 2026

Not appalled by any of this but to answer your question, Caviezel was cast well as Jesus. Growing up in the church, his look was pretty squared up with how Jesus was depicted. Dark hair, dark beard, fair to olive skin.



Middle Eastern is not a race, or even an ethnicity, so no swapping to speak of. That entire region had so many people moved through it due to the Greek and Roman Empires, Muslim invasions, the Crusades, the slave trade, etc, The genetic traits of appearance changed greatly. Much of Italy, Spain, and Portgual looked more like Germans at one point than they have the last couple thousand years.

I agree completely with your point that "race swapping" for historical figures is absurd regardless of the majority/minority angle. It's just dumb. Mandela should be played by a black male. Eisenhauer should be played by a white male.

As far as Helen of Troy, I think I just had it in my head that she was a more documented historical figure as opposed to more mythological. Guess I was wrong on that. As I said in a previous post, I think of lot of people just associate the character as "Greek" and find the casting pandering. It's doubtful Homer had ever even seen a black person. But to your point, this is Nolan's adaption of mythology, he's taking it in some new directions, so be it.

What has happened is it's becoming increasingly clear that Nolan is pandering to diversity, unless these are all farfetched lies. Which, they would have been debunked by now I believe if they were not being cast.

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— Around Town Memes (@chuckdpete) May 17, 2026

"Almost assuredly"...this dude.

Please look at what men native to the Levant look like. Those that aren't Arab are light to olive skin tones. Look at men from Syria, and Lebanon.

It ultimately doesn't matter what skin color Christ had, but Caviezel wasn't far off enough to be implausible, unlike the majority of Nolan's casting.

These are the same people who will tell you the "Cleopatra was brown because she was from Africa!"

Exactly. This is an olive-skinned region where the range of how light or dark the olive is varies. At a minimum, Caviezel was in the range.

Holy lack of self-awareness, Batman. If that isn't the pot calling the kettle on this board, I have no idea what is

You clearly won't

As I was saying…

TCTTS said:

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I could not care less what a bunch of online, anti-woke-obsessed, middle-age dudes think of me. Talk all the **** you want, do your usual pile-on, etc. I'm beyond used to it.

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You obviously don't care. At all.