Jada Pinkett Smith is defending her decision to cast a biracial actress as Cleopatra in her new Netflix series, African Queens
Netflix is falsifying the country’s history.
Cleopatra’s story dates back to 69 BC, before accurate depictions of race and cultural ethnicity, yet some researchers are relying heavily on busts and drawings of Cleopatra as a reference point. Egyptian archaeologist and antiquities minister, Zahi Hawass, toldthat historical artifacts prove that Cleopatra was not Black. “If we see statues and forms of her father and brother, we will not find any evidence supporting this claim that she was black,” he claimed.
that “Statues of Queen Cleopatra confirm that she had Hellenistic features, distinguished by light skin, a drawn-out nose, and thin lips.”Waziri claimed complaints surrounding the Netflix series are not racially driven, but rather are an attempt to preserve Cleopatra’s history, adding that he has “full respect for African cultures and to our brothers and sisters from the African continent.”
Producers told Tudum the casting choice was deliberate and while the aim of the show “has always been to uncover the hidden histories of powerful women from the past and what made them leaders that we still talk about today ... we did intentionally decide to depict her of mixed ethnicity to reflect theories about Cleopatra’s possible Egyptian ancestry and the multicultural nature of ancient Egypt.
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