Black Actress Who Plays Cleopatra in Netflix Show Says She’s Getting Death Threats, Has ‘Every Right’ to Play Doomed Queen
Netflix has been accused of ‘woke’ casting in defiance of historians agreeing that Cleopatra was Macedonian Greek.
The biracial actress Adele James, who plays a famed Egyptian ruler, Cleopatra, in an upcoming Netflix docudrama, has received death threats as Egyptians accuse her of “blackwashing” and “stealing” their identity.
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