Coming to Netflix screens next month: Queen Cleopatra, a four-part 'docudrama,' incorporating interviews from experts as well as reenactments and narrated by Jada Pinkett Smith. But a heated debate over the actress cast as the iconic Egyptian ruler is here now.
Why are people so upset? And what are they saying?
Historians have debated the precise ancestry and race of Cleopatra, who ruled Egypt for 21 years, from 51 B.C. to 30 B.C. However, she is most often described as, the author wrote that Cleopatra was Greek and"approximately as Egyptian as Elizabeth Taylor." Ancestry of the queen's mother is unknown.Netflix is obviously well aware of the criticism.
And the star of the series has shared some of the hateful comments that she's received on social media, explaining that she banned the offenders.
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