The announcement of Israeli actress Gal Gadot's choice to play Cleopatra on screen has ignited social media, where Hollywood is once again accused of "laundering" amid historic debate over the queen's ethnicity from Egypt.
Israeli actress Gal Gadot has announced that she will play Cleopatra in a biopic. A news that panics Internet users because the Queen of Egypt is apparently black according to them.
The life of Cleopatra VII, the last Egyptian pharaoh, was infamous, but she was far more than just the lover of Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Born in 69 BC, she was the daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes, a notoriously lackadaisical monarch, and rose to power as co-ruler with her brother in 51 BC. Who …