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There's no question that Gal Gadot Cleopatra movie news has been met with controversy, namely, for whitewashing its main character. We have a beautiful script, and I cannot wait to share this story with the world and change the narrative of Cleopatra simply being a seductor. But to me, I’m so passionate to tell her story and to bring justice to this character, and her legacy and celebrate her and her legacy. Egypt and what Egypt was back then, was still futuristic to where we are today.
But the truth is, there’s so much more to her. All I ever saw in regards to Cleopatra from film, was that she was this seductive woman who had an affair with Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony. That’s a perfect example of a story that I wanted to tell because I started reading different books about Cleopatra, and I said, Wow, that’s fascinating. You know, if Wonder Woman is the imaginary strong female leader, Cleopatra’s actually the real one. Israel borders Egypt, and I grew up with so many stories about Cleopatra, and she’s like a household name. This is what Gadot is seeking to rectify, and her full, lengthy, quote can be read below: It's true that Cleopatra is often painted as a femme fatale in historical discourse, and many of the accusations surrounding her character could be deemed unfair. It's no secret that historical accounts like that of Cleopatra tend to favor men's side of the tale, and Gadot is seeking to bring justice to the historical inaccuracies regarding the Queen that have expounded over the centuries. Yunioshi in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” to Alec Guinness’ anti-Semitic Fagin in “Oliver Twist.” But the problem with these portrayals is their demeaning caricaturization - something that no one expects in the coming Cleopatra film.The latest Gal Gadot Cleopatra movie news saw the actress speaking up about the importance of telling the Egyptian monarch's story in her cover issue of Vogue Hong Kong.
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The history of cinema is full of hurtful portrayals by white actors, ranging from the gruesome blackface donned by Al Jolson in the landmark sound film “The Jazz Singer” to Mickey Rooney’s infamous Mr. The knee-jerk anxiety about unmatched ethnicities of actors and characters is understandable. Someone who celebrates her origins from a “ small country in the Middle East,” Gadot is certainly as fit as anyone to play Cleopatra - their hometowns are only a half-day’s drive away, after all. while also being a fellow Middle Easterner to Iranians like me, despite the unfortunate conflicts that pit our nations against each other. Gadot can indeed be a white-passing actor in the U.S. The black-and-white thinking that confines Cleopatra and Gadot to racial boxes ignores the complexities of human commonality and community. If we are to believe the tall tales of her first-century Roman biographer Plutarch, she not only possessed an “irresistible charm” but spoke fluent Ethiopian, Arabic, Syriac, Parthian and Hebrew (one thing in common with Gadot, at least.) This probably exaggerated multilingualism wasn’t due to linguaphilia but her self-nativization attempts to help spread her authority in the region, challenged as it was by the might of Rome. Amie Dworecki / The Enquirer via AP fileĬleopatra also dressed and styled herself like an Egyptian, elevated Egyptian religious practices and identified herself with the Egyptian goddess Isis. (The language is now extinct, but a form of it was spoken until around the 16th century and is now preserved as the liturgical language of Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority.) A statue of Cleopatra, at a preview of the regional exhibition, Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt, at the Cincinnati Museum Center. When Cleopatra came to the throne jointly with her brother in her late teens, Cleopatra became the first-ever Ptolemaic ruler to fluently learn the local Egyptian tongue.
Although she had been born into an Alexandria with segregation between the ruling Greeks, native Egyptians and other ethnic groups such as Jews, her own outlook defied this rigid separation. Please submit a letter to the editor.Įither way, the debate over her DNA misses the much more interesting part of Cleopatra’s biography and the mix of worlds she encompassed by nurture if not nature.
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