Makers of Netflix Movie about Black Cleopatra Don’t Know Sh*t About History

[AMart]

If Jesus can be played by James Caviezel in Passion of the Christ (heck, has there been any middle eastern actors playing JC ever?), why can’t we have a black Cleopatra?

Caviezel can easily pass as a levantine.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

If Jesus can be played by James Caviezel in Passion of the Christ (heck, has there been any middle eastern actors playing JC ever?), why can’t we have a black Cleopatra?

Because we do know what Cleopatra looked like. We know about her entire family. She was a fair redhead.

 

[Moonglow]

Changing history in the name of diversity and inclusion!! yeah!

Whites had no problem doing it in the history of film.

 

[excalibur]

The way I look at it, its "acting".

If a movie producer wants to cast a black chick as Cleopatra, or Pee Wee Herman as MLK, that's their right and no one should be offended.

If you don't like it, you don't have to tune in when its on TV.

Love to see Pee Wee play MLK! Heh.

 

[JoeB131]

Because we do know what Cleopatra looked like. We know about her entire family. She was a fair redhead.

I've heard people claim she was blonde.

Given her Greek Ancestry, neither of those are probable.

 

[Moonglow]

Because we do know what Cleopatra looked like. We know about her entire family. She was a fair redhead.

How many Naive Americans were Jewish, Italian, Irish, English or French like in US films of the 1930s-1970s? How many Europeans played Asian detectives in the 1930s-1940s?

 

[AMart]

We waz kweens n cheit

 

[AMart]

I've heard people claim she was blonde.

Given her Greek Ancestry, neither of those are probable.

And she wasn't black

 

[otto105]

The gross ignorance astounds me.

Netflix's 'Black Cleopatra': More Problems Than the Obvious

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Can you post the exact color of her skin.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

The gross ignorance astounds me.

Netflix's 'Black Cleopatra': More Problems Than the Obvious

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Cleopatra was from the Ptolemaic Dynasty who's origins where Macedonian Greek.

 

[excalibur]

Can you post the exact color of her skin.

From the OP link:

... She was Greek, specifically Macedonian, a descendant of Alexander the Great’s general, Ptolemy I.

Little wonder that former Egyptian Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass insists that Netflix’s depiction of Cleopatra “is completely fake. Cleopatra was Greek, meaning that she was blonde, not black.”​

 

[AMart]

Can you post the exact color of her skin.

Yeah not black. A European Greek. Btw white folks have been in the Nile valley for 600000 years. So you could even say European phenotypes originated in Africa. But not black with afto hair.

 

[otto105]

And she wasn't black

What color was she?


Santa Klaus white or pale?

 

[otto105]

From the OP link:

... She was Greek, specifically Macedonian, a descendant of Alexander the Great’s general, Ptolemy I.​

​

Little wonder that former Egyptian Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass insists that Netflix’s depiction of Cleopatra “is completely fake. Cleopatra was Greek, meaning that she was blonde, not black.”​

Her skin color was blonde?


Seriously

 

[otto105]

Yeah not black. A European Greek. Btw white folks have been in the Nile valley for 600000 years. So you could even say European phenotypes originated in Africa. But not black with afto hair.

She didn’t live in Greece.

She lived south of that more under the sun. Which country was that again?

 

[AMart]

What color was she?


Santa Klaus white or pale?

Regular European from Macedonia.

 

[otto105]

Regular European from Macedonia.

So, in the shade then.


She must have used sunscreen.

 

[AMart]

She didn’t live in Greece.

She lived south of that more under the sun. Which country was that again?

Do you think she spent her days at club med getting a tan

 

[otto105]

Do you think she spent her days at club med getting a tan

No, she spent her day under the actual sun and was brown skinned not white.

 

[excalibur]

Her skin color was blonde?


Seriously

And you think with natural blonde hair she wasn't European?