Lupita Nyong’o Portrays Both Helen and Helenʼs Sister Clytemnestra In Christopher Nolanʼs ‘The Odyssey'

During an interview with Time Magazine, Christopher Nolan reveals Lupita Nyong’o’s plays not one but two roles as sisters in his upcoming highly anticipated film, The Odyssey.

The reunion between Odysseus’ fellow king Menelaus (Jon Bernthal) and his wife Helen (Lupita Nyong’o)—the most beautiful woman in the world, blamed for starting the war after a Trojan prince spirited her away—has always felt too neatly resolved in the poem. Nolan complicates it. And in a twist, Nyong’o also plays Helen’s sister, Clytemnestra, whose marriage to Menelaus’ brother Agamemnon (Benny Safdie) is, to put it mildly, acrimonious. - Time Magazine Interview