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After much hang-wringing and countless auditions, we found in Adele James an actor who could convey not only Cleopatra’s beauty, but also her strength. What the historians can confirm is that it is more likely that Cleopatra looked like Adele than Elizabeth Taylor ever did.
As production got nearer, I realized the magnitude and political nature of this job. It was important to get things right, but also to find a way of telling the story with humanism and nuance: The last thing we needed was another Cleopatra divorced from her womanhood and her power only sexualized. The HBO series “Rome” portrayed one of the most intelligent, sophisticated and powerful women in the world as a sleazy, dissipated drug addict, yet Egypt didn’t seem to mind. Where was the outrage then? But portraying her as Black? Well.
Perhaps, it’s not just that I’ve directed a series that portrays Cleopatra as Black, but that I have asked Egyptians to see themselves as Africans, and they are furious at me for that. I am okay with this.
While shooting, I became the target of a huge online hate campaign. Egyptians accused me of “blackwashing” and “stealing” their history. Some threatened to ruin my career — which I wanted to tell them was laughable. I was ruining it very well for myself, thank you very much! No amount of reasoning or reminders that Arab invasions had not yet happened in Cleopatra’s age seemed to stem the tide of ridiculous comments. Amir in his bedroom in Cairo wrote to me to earnestly appeal that “Cleopatra was Greek!” Oh, Lawd! Why would that be a good thing to you, Amir? You’re Egyptian."
-Director Tina Gharavi
The reference to Amir is the archeologist who uncovered Cleopatra's tomb and lead expert in Egypt on Cleopatra
If one of these fall the company fall with it
They said the exact same thing about Breaking Bad and The Sopranos. Two amazing shows which are still earning more each year globally, that forbs has ever earned in the past 100 years.
Both shows have received to many awards and accolades to even list without writing a whole book on the subject.
I will check the show out and form my own opinion, but so far it just seems a bunch of people with no life are mad that the actress playing Cleopatra is black, and they claim the real Cleopatra was white or Chinese or something. Whatever.
Imagine how many TV shows and movies are not historically accurate documentaries, right down to he DNA of the actors lol
I can agree on that, no one would of cared. But of course wall of text guy will neglect that and just call us all racist while he’s okay with insane people rewriting our history.
In all honesty, he’s just watering down the word racism. I doubt these types even know what real racism is anymore.
That is most likely true.
Nobody cares about fictional takes on history (Alternative history)
There have been lots of awful cleopatra movies and series and those that some people think is correct is also very misrepresentated, I recko that Cleopatra would have had an olive skintone.
They should make a Netflix series of that.
But whatever opinions opinions your right and I’m right and your wrong and I’m wrong.