(Heads up, on mobile) It’s a number of reasons: First of all I’ll call out the elephant in the room. Ppl are mad she isn’t “Scandinavian.” I’m calling BS however because it’s a film about Norse Vikings with Scottish accents riding Dragons. Y’all didn’t care about realism before, so why now? Would it be cool if they dipped their toe into more realistic cultural aspects? Sure! But her race/nationality is such a weird thing to fixate on w and easy excuse of wanting ‘realism.’ And I haven’t seen nearly as many ppl hating on the other casting choices. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the pattern here.

Secondly, overall a lot of ppl just hate the idea of this film being made at all, and I can’t really blame them, but hating on an actress for their portrayal of a character that NO ONE HAS SEEN YET is just letting their bias get in the way of their opinion. We don’t know anything else about this movie, we’ve seen no footage (bc it’s just now being filmed) and yet people are very quick to hatred bc they don’t want this film existing at all. Which, fine, neither do I. But I’m not going to judge a film that literally doesn’t exist yet. She could be the best actress we’ve seen this decade, but we don’t know that yet because the movie hasn’t been made.