Netflix is accused of 'blackwashing' new Jada Pinkett Smith produced docu-series Queen Cleopatra by casting black British actress as the historically Macedonian-Greek ruler - sparking anger in Egypt.

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Netflix is accused of 'blackwashing' new Jada Pinkett Smith produced docu-series Queen Cleopatra by casting black British actress as the historically Macedonian-Greek ruler - sparking anger in Egypt.

04-19-2023, 12:20 PM

Of all of the queens of Egypt that they could made a movie about, they had to make a movie about a biracial queen who was a traitor to her own people.

Netflix accused of 'blackwashing' new docu-series Queen Cleopatra

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Producer Jada Pinkett Smith said she wanted to tell the story because 'we don't often get to see or hear stories about black queens.'
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04-19-2023, 08:02 PM

No one really cares like that.

Egypt was mad and about how Black Africans were part of Egypt's past
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