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Gal Gadot Responds to ‘Whitewashing’ Backlash After ‘Cleopatra’ Casting
New York Post ^ | December 23, 2020

Posted on 12/24/2020 11:09:12 PM PST by nickcarraway

Gal Gadot has defended her casting as Cleopatra after she was met with accusations of “whitewashing” the upcoming biopic.

Critics have said that an Arab or African actress should play the role of the iconic Egyptian leader instead of the 35-year-old Israeli actress.

“First of all, if you want to be true to the facts, then Cleopatra was Macedonian,” Gadot told BBC Arabic. “We were looking for a Macedonian actress that could fit Cleopatra. She wasn’t there. And I was very passionate about Cleopatra.”

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To: Impala64ssa

Cleopatra’s Egypt stretched to the south, and included black Africans. She often wore a wig of kinked black hair. Her hair, her clothes and her jewelry showed her love of all of her subjects. She was a female monarch and used her beauty and fashion as part of her leadership style.


21 posted on 12/25/2020 1:03:22 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: nickcarraway

Cleopatra was Greek.


22 posted on 12/25/2020 1:05:24 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: gasport

More recent:

Jackie Kennedy


23 posted on 12/25/2020 1:12:13 AM PST by Varsity Flight ("War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: nickcarraway

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/04/04/was-cleopatra-really-beautiful/amp/

A bust of her


24 posted on 12/25/2020 1:30:43 AM PST by MNDude
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To: mass55th

Jamie Foxx and Quvenzhané Wallis as Oliver Warbucks and Annie in Sony Pictures’ 2014 hatchet job.


25 posted on 12/25/2020 1:36:02 AM PST by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: nickcarraway

BBC regularly portrays half the British royals and historical characters as black from everything from Robin Hood to King Arthur.


26 posted on 12/25/2020 1:36:12 AM PST by MNDude
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Few things rise above a grounded, righteous female.


27 posted on 12/25/2020 1:37:01 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: nickcarraway

Hollywood fictions aside, black Egyptomania propaganda is a push towards trying to revise history to say that sub-Saharan people were the original Jewish people. That push runs into quite a few impenetrable facts, though, one being that Moses came down from Mt. Sinai with an obvious sunburn.


28 posted on 12/25/2020 2:10:35 AM PST by familyop
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To: wildcard_redneck

Interestingly Ptolemy was Alexanders half brother.


29 posted on 12/25/2020 2:32:16 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: DoughtyOne

European and White American history, art, music, and culture has been in the midst of a genocide for a number of years.

The genocide of Europeans Americans of European descent is next.

30 posted on 12/25/2020 3:07:35 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m upset that Peter Jackson didn’t use real orcs in the “Lord of the Rings” movies. :-P


31 posted on 12/25/2020 3:17:18 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: pepsi_junkie
I took a masters level Black Studies (Diversity) class at a major American university about four years ago.

It was one of the most disturbing things I had ever experienced. The level hatred in that classroom, and the preponderance of lies spewing out of the professor's mouth and the mouths of most of the students was appalling.

Whites in the class were constantly singled out for harassment and vile name calling.

I could go on for hours about details of what was taught, but here is a quick synopsis:

- Blacks and "POC" invented everything in human history, including medicine, architecture, music, clothing, furniture, and the arts

- All Whites are racist, but Blacks can never be and are without any type of sin whatsoever (but they don't use the word sin because they don't believe in God)

- The "Egyptians Were Black!" mantra is akin to religious dogma, and the main reason for this is because the cultural achievements of sub-Saharan Africa is so lacking that they need the achievements of ancient Egypt to justify their lie that Blacks built and achieved everything of worth in human history

We were forced to watch this propaganda movie called "Out of Darkness" by a racist American Black man who calls him Amadeus Christ.

It is full of lies and soliloquies by mentally unstable men and women who make up facts in their own minds, and who HATE White people with a passion.

The movie ends with the "message" - that all Blacks are really gods and will inherent the earth once all whites are eliminated or enslaved.

32 posted on 12/25/2020 3:20:12 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

This stuff needs to be filmed, the people sued and run out of town to prevent the upcoming genocide.


33 posted on 12/25/2020 3:25:12 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup
This stuff needs to be filmed, the people sued and run out of town to prevent the upcoming genocide.

No court would rule favorably.

Not one.

The level of indoctrination at colleges and universities today is simply astounding.

Satan did his job very well.

34 posted on 12/25/2020 3:31:46 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

If civilization originated in Africa, it left and has yet to return.


35 posted on 12/25/2020 3:34:13 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: DoughtyOne

Heck they have blacks playing Brit royals now (deep in the past).

Israelis are Mediterranean people. We look pretty much like everyone else along all the coasts.

This selective outrage goes to one way


36 posted on 12/25/2020 3:53:20 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Alberta's Child

In his defense, the orcs are native to Portland and he filmed in new zess as land.

Three are laws against import in most countries


37 posted on 12/25/2020 3:58:49 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: nickcarraway

LOL.
Idiots.

Cleopatra was 100% Ptolemaic Greek going back at least 6 generations.


38 posted on 12/25/2020 4:30:01 AM PST by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: Hypo2

So happy that the left is feeding on each other. I have stopped watching Hollywood, or should I say I review first, any woke, race, transgender, gay, or strong women in roles that promote such are scrapped in my book


39 posted on 12/25/2020 5:09:33 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: nickcarraway

This is like a recent case with a high school play of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. A white girl played Esmerelda who had been portrayed with darker Gypsy skin by the Disney cartoon. But Esmerelda had been stolen from her French mother by the Gypsies early in the book, so she shouldn’t have looked like them. But the rage mob protested because the actress was white.


40 posted on 12/25/2020 5:11:55 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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