Emily Wilson has softened parts of her criticism and clarified social media remarks, saying she regrets language that framed roles for non-white performers as marginal while praising their talent.Christopher Nolan has not replied and the film is a commercial success, reaching $683M worldwide as Joyce Carol Oates and other public figures trade defenses and attacks over casting and interpretation.Wilson, the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer's
The Odyssey and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, says she still stands by the core of her review and hopes the controversy will encourage new readers to study ancient Greek literature.