Nolan's 'The Odyssey' actress said she'd scold Homer over lack of female speaking roles

Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o said in an interview on Thursday that if she met the ancient Greek playwright Homer, she would grill him about the lack of female representation in his epics. Nyong’o, famous for her roles in "Black Panther" and "12 Years a Slave," will play Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s ancient epic, "The Odyssey." Helen of Troy is known in mythology as the world's most beautiful woman and for whom the Trojan War was started in Homer’s epic, "Th