The director of the upcoming documentary series “Queen Cleopatra” brushed off criticisms of “blackwashing” over her choice to cast a Black actress as the famous Egyptian queen.
Tina Gharavi penned a Saturday column for Variety where she admitted that having Adele James play Cleopatra is a “political act” to right the wrongs of White actress Elizabeth Taylor’s portrayal of the last Egyptian queen in a 1963 film.
Egyptian lawyer Mahmoud al-Semary filed a lawsuit against Netflix last week that claimed the latest installment of Jada Pinkett Smith’s “African Queens” project was “erasing the Egyptian identity,” according to the British Broadcasting Corporation. Ms. Gharavi shot back at the people speaking up about her decision to cast Ms. James in the leading role, yet they were silent when HBO’s series “Rome” depicted her as a “sleazy, dissipated drug addict.”
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