The anti-DEI crowd claimed the casting of Elliot Page and Lupita Nyong’o would sink the film.
A personal caveat: While the mental gymnastics of the right-wing are as ridiculous, as they infuriating; it also needs to be said that Christopher Nolan is anything but a leftist. This article here does a good job to delve into Nolan’s political bend.
I’m sure these casting choices were more for publicity boost than for the perfect actor for the perfect supporting role. Prerelease exposure to get non-cinemaphiles talking about the film at all is gold in Hollywood.
Elliot Page as Sinon was…unremarkable. For as much of a deal was made about his casting, he was onscreen for very little time, and his appearance in the underworld was so caked in mud and filth that any subtle emotive work that Page might have been hired for was lost.
Good to know! Thanks
I thought he did a great job. It was a key role in a major plot line. That was what, the C plot? Top three through lines of the movie ain’t bad.
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If Nolan wasn’t such a coward we woulda had Jason Mantzoukas as Odysseus. Now there’s an unhinged Greek who placed his infant son befoe a plough to try and get out of the war, pissed off a god and had half his crew turned into pigs
Great point. Jason is my John Odyssey.