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re: Did Christopher Nolan really cast Zendaya as Athena?

Posted on 11/20/25 at 3:38 pm to
Posted by LoveThatMoney
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 3:38 pm to
Goddamn yall are some weirdos.

I think she’s a pretty good actress, attractive and enjoyable on film.

She not trying to be Meryl fricking Streep. Yall relax.
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 4:01 pm to
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Yea, those things are not at all political or subjective

Your judgement of her is also political and subjective. Her fans and peers think she's a good actress worthy of accolades.
Posted by theunknownknight
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Member since Sep 2005
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 4:15 pm to
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I think she’s a pretty good actress, attractive and enjoyable on film.


She can be attractive
And given the right part she can be enjoyable
I wouldn’t call her a good actress…yet

She could be like Leonardo DiCaprio and improve over the years - even though he is still overrated and one of the biggest over actors in Hollywood

Leo was the male Zendaya in the 1990’s and most of the fruits on here fell for it. He is good now though.

I’d say she is the female 90’s DiCaprio
This post was edited on 11/20/25 at 4:16 pm
Posted by Patfic15
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2018
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 4:22 pm to
So over Zendayas face.
Posted by Froman
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2007
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 4:26 pm to
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Kept my eye on him since Yesterday, which was better than it had any right to be largely because of his performance


Yeah, he was pretty good in that. That movie should have been better but not because of the actors.
Posted by Gifman
Member since Jan 2021
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 6:52 pm to
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Leo was the male Zendaya in the 1990’s and most of the fruits on here fell for it. He is good now though.


Not even close. She cannot act at all.
Posted by SoFla Tideroller
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 7:14 pm to
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So much disrespect for Nolan on here. Lol at thinking you can do a better casting job


Ummmmmmm, he did cast a basset hound as Bruce Wayne's love interest.
Posted by Sun God
Member since Jul 2009
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 7:59 pm to
Her best role by far was being the weirdo MJ in the Spider-Man movies

She has sucked in everything else
Posted by LoveThatMoney
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 7:59 pm to
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Leo was the male Zendaya in the 1990’s and most of the fruits on here fell for it.


How the frick are you gonna tell me Basketball Diaries and Gilbert Grape are not top tier performances?

He was also good in Growing Pains and This Boy’s Life, enjoyable in The Quick and The Dead, perfectly cast in Titanic (even if you didn’t like the movie), and then did Catch Me if You Can and Gangs of New York before he was 30.

What in pluperfect hell are you smoking?
Posted by theunknownknight
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:09 pm to
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He was also good in Growing Pains and This Boy’s Life, enjoyable in The Quick and The Dead, perfectly cast in Titanic (even if you didn’t like the movie), and then did Catch Me if You Can and Gangs of New York before he was 30.

What in pluperfect hell are you smoking?


Found the fruit
Posted by Sun God
Member since Jul 2009
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:14 pm to
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Found the fruit

Didn’t you used to post shirtless pictures here
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:16 pm to
I don’t know why we need black or Indian actors in an Ancient Greek movie. But since we just, bc great art has quotas of course, then zendaya most certainly should not be Athena.
Posted by BugAC
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Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:30 pm to
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She's won two Emmy's and a Golden Globe


By playing a bitchy angst teen. His point Still stands.
This post was edited on 11/20/25 at 8:34 pm
Posted by theunknownknight
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:34 pm to
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Didn’t you used to post shirtless pictures here


I give the fruits what they want
Posted by A Menace to Sobriety
Member since Jun 2018
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:45 pm to
She is a horrible actress and not that good looking in general. I'm with OP not sure how she's in a Nolan movie and not even sure how she's even a thing,
Posted by skrayper
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Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:52 pm to
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Also, aside from ebony sculptures, their artwork depicts a lighter toned people than Zendaya. Lots of blonde hair, too



Uh, no.

LINK
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
27845 posts
Posted on 11/20/25 at 9:07 pm to
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not that good looking in general.

What planet do you live on where she is an unattractive woman?


Posted by Friendly Satan
Member since Nov 2024
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 9:31 pm to
Goddamn man, that’s a horrible casting job!
Posted by 62zip
One Particular Harbor
Member since Aug 2005
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 9:38 pm to
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Disgraceful casting. Not a single Greek to be found.



That's only an issue when there aren't enough blacks cast for something.

I'm waiting for an MLK movie starring Billy Zane or John Stamos.
Posted by 62zip
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Member since Aug 2005
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 9:40 pm to
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Your misconception is common because of recency bias, but before the spread of Islam and the Ottoman Empire Greeks were fair-skinned Mediterraneans.



Still plenty of fair skin - both my grandparents could have passed for Germans.
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