Whoopi Goldberg Defends $282.1 Million The Odyssey Against Woke Casting Critics
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Updated · The Daily Beast · Jul 23
Whoopi Goldberg Defends $282.1 Million The Odyssey Against Woke Casting Critics
3 articles · Updated · The Daily Beast · Jul 23
Summary
Goldberg used Tuesday’s episode of The View to tell conservatives upset over The Odyssey’s casting to simply skip the film, singling out complaints about Lupita Nyong’o and Eliot Page.
The backlash centered on claims the movie was “woke,” but the film opened to strong demand—advance tickets sold out within minutes—and had grossed $282.1 million worldwide by the weekend.
Eliot Page had been wrongly rumored months earlier to play Achilles; he instead plays Sinon, while Elon Musk attacked Nyong’o’s casting as Helen of Troy and called it anti-Greek.
Ben Shapiro, after initially criticizing Page’s role, is now calling the film a “masterpiece,” underscoring how commercial and critical momentum has outpaced the culture-war backlash.