The race-neutral casting of Nolan’s Odyssey was inevitably deplored in some quarters. But there is nothing progressive about it. Most of the non-white actors – Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Himesh Patel, Corey Antonio Hawkins, Travis Scott – play versions of the Black best friend, whose only role in the drama is to provide aid to the white protagonist.

It wasn't enough for Emily Wilson (an upper class white British American woman) to include black people in the cast, they should've been the protagonists.

Can you imagine if a film adaptation of the Epic of Sundiata had white actors ? The whole western world would stop spinning.

I really wish all those senseless racial tensions of the US had not spill over to the rest of us.

Nobody in France would bat an eye if a movie had white only cast, as nobody would bat an eye if a movie had black only cast.