You can't have a 1.55m woman play the greatest Greek hero of all time. It's an insult to Greek culture. If Sydney Sweeney played Martin Luther King it would be equally insulting.
If Greek machismo were blemished by mere fiction it would always have been eggshell thin. I have a feeling it shall hold up just fine as it has for millennia.
A big part of Achilles' story in the Illiad is that he was hidden among a group of princesses, and that Odysseus had to use a trick to figure out which of the princesses he was. So, even though in other places he is described as quite manly, it also makes sense to portray him as having more feminine features if referencing this part of the canon.
I'd also note that Elliott Page is, of course, not a woman.
> I'd also note that Elliott Page is, of course, not a woman.
Scientists can tell that Lucy the hominid was a female even though only a few of her bones have survived since 3.2 million years ago when she died yet leftists think that Page is no longer a women just because she excised her breasts and changed her government papers.
If her bones get fossilized, 100 million years from now you'd still be able to figure out she's a woman.
> A big part of Achilles' story in the Iliad
Not only is it not a big part, but it's not even in the Iliad. You're clearly just regurgitating talking points.
That's a later invention. And it doesn't make him a transsexual. He marries a woman there.