Who does Lupita Nyong’o play in The Odyssey?

Lupita Nyong’o plays both Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026). Helen of Troy is the most beautiful woman of Greece and the wife of Menelaus. She becomes the indirect cause of the Trojan War when she elopes with (or is kidnapped by) Paris, the son of the Trojan king. Clytemnestra is the unfaithful wife of Agamemnon, whom Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus, murder. Clytemnestra is Helen’s sister. Nyong’o’s casting in the film became the subject of discussion because of her ethnicity.