Queen Cleopatra director Tina Gharavi denounces blackwashing backlash regarding Egyptian ruler's race in her upcoming Netflix documentary miniseries.
Queen Cleopatra director Tina Gharavi recently defended her upcoming Netflix documentary series amid backlash regarding the race of the Egyptian ruler. Black actress Adele James stars as the legendary North African ruler in a four-part dramatized retelling of Cleopatra VII Philopator's historic reign. Due to the show's casting choice, Gharavi and executive producer Jada Pinkett-Smith have received criticism accusing Queen Cleopatra of blackwashing history.
Born in Iran, I am a Persian, and Cleopatra’s heritage has been attributed at one time or another to the Greeks, the Macedonians and the Persians. The known facts are that her Macedonian Greek family — the Ptolemaic lineage — intermarried with West Asian’s Seleucid dynasty and had been in Egypt for 300 years. Cleopatra was eight generations away from these Ptolemaic ancestors, making the chance of her being white somewhat unlikely.
After much hang-wringing and countless auditions, we found in Adele James an actor who could convey not only Cleopatra’s beauty, but also her strength. What the historians can confirm is that it is more likely that Cleopatra looked like Adele than Elizabeth Taylor ever did. So, was Cleopatra Black? We don’t know for sure, but we can be certain she wasn’t white like Elizabeth Taylor. We need to have a conversation with ourselves about our colorism, and the internalized white supremacy that Hollywood has indoctrinated us with.
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