"News of Gadot's casting sparked an online debate over the Egyptian queen's race and skin color, with some Twitter users insisting that an African actress should play Cleopatra in the upcoming film."
Except that Cleopatra was Greek.
Except that Cleopatra was Greek.
https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1315375321131167746
Well, Macedonian anyway. Cleopatra was the (very inbred) descendent to Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great's generals who seized Egypt for his own kingdom.
So the whole debate over what ancient Egyptians looked like is irrelevant to what Cleopatra looked like.
What the world really needs, though, is a good film about Septimius Severus, the first Roman emperor from Africa.
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