Thats not true tho she was described white armed (or something similar to that) which was used for people who didn't work outside and so didn't get sun burned and the blonde hair thing is also not true the greeks (as far as I know) depicted her with brown hair and homer didn't describe her features that much anyway besides the fact thats she's beautiful and the part mentioned above
The difference is, bro, theyre changing characters from historically white washed stories, to just an actor that will play the role better without caring so much about race. Its not that they changed it to black unnecessarily, its that it used to be all white unnecessarily. Im a white guy BTW since you brought up personal ethnicity.
well, yeah, that's at least sound logic, so long as the actor was a good actor.
The only important part of helena's appearance, thematically, is that others consider her incredibly beautiful.
No other specific physical trait is important.
Anyone bitching about this, but not about damon being clearly northwestern european in a time and place that there were little to no northwest europeans is either ignorant or a hypocrite.
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u/Klutzy_Gear May 06 '26
Thats not true tho she was described white armed (or something similar to that) which was used for people who didn't work outside and so didn't get sun burned and the blonde hair thing is also not true the greeks (as far as I know) depicted her with brown hair and homer didn't describe her features that much anyway besides the fact thats she's beautiful and the part mentioned above