Kimmel’s Show Finds Huge Hole in MAGA’s Movie Outrage

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Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest host Colman Domingo used Monday’s show to mock right-wingers outraged over casting choices in Christopher Nolan’s new film The Odyssey.

Domingo rolled a clip of podcaster Chris Cella complaining about Lupita Nyong’o, who plays Helen of Troy in the film. “Casting a Black woman as Helen of Troy is like casting a Black man to play Abraham Lincoln or a white dude to play MLK,” Cella said in an interview on the far-right One America News channel.

Domingo had a fact check ready. “Well, not exactly, because MLK was real.

And Helen of Troy is as real as Harry Potter,” he said.

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