“The Odyssey” Okay, let's talk Nolan. I don't know why everyone wants to have an opinion as to how this man casts his movies, bc in terms of playing the audiences emotions, he's the greatest director of all time and deserves respect on his name Think about it. Nolan is to emotions what Tarantino is to dialogue and action. In other words, he's the master. His ace in the hole is to achieve high emotional impact with visual cues set to music in a short period of time (3-4 min climax in Oppenheimer, crazy mid point escalation in Interstellar, etc), just as Tarantino’s is the to the same except set to action and killing instead of more emotional themes like fatherhood The endings of Interstellar and Oppenheimer hit like sledgehammers, bc he’s playing our emotions like a fiddler plays the crowd, connecting visuals and music to the bigger picture and preceding 90 minutes of drama (fatherhood, existential dread, etc) He is the GOAT of high drama My point is, it doesn't matter who the fuck he casts. They could be purple fucking people eaters from planet Neptune. He's going to get the best emotions out of them. He's going to get the best scenes out of them. He's going to make us cry and smile whether we like it or not, or he’ll just confuse the fuck out of us trying (nobody is perfect) So, let's give the man the benefit of the doubt that he's going to make us feel things we haven't felt before when we're watching the Odyssey, and hopefully we get lost in his brilliance and forget the actors skin color … remember when that was a thing? Let’s put some respect on Christopher Nolan's name