Apparently Hollywood has more authority than history when it comes to determining what historical figures looked like. “Thanks to Hollywood, it's just an established fact at this point that Cleopatra was in fact black, and if you don't like it, well, then you're clearly a racist,” says Lauren Chen s.
Israeli actress Gal Gadot is set to start in the upcoming high-budget film "Cleopatra", following the uproar caused by Netflix's Cleopatra documentary, Israeli media announced.
Israeli actress Gal Gadot is set to start in the upcoming high-budget film "Cleopatra", following the uproar caused by Netflix's Cleopatra documentary, Israeli media announced.
The decision by Netflix' latest documentary series to portray Cleopatra as an Egyptian and thereby an African ruler is partly aimed at rehabilitating her as a historical figure. But good intentions don't always produce good results, as Shady Lewis Botros argues