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eggcorn posted...

I don't understand why this is a big deal unless the film or whatever it is is being promoted as fact/non fiction. If it's just a drama, who gives a fuck?

I agree - in a fictionalized drama you can make whatever changes needed to make it more interesting. Complaints about what the actress looks like are silly. Any adaptation is bound to take some liberties, like she also speaks English. I'm sure massively inbred Egyptian-born actresses of Greek descent are in short supply anyway.

That said, Netflix' Queen Cleopatra is presented as a documentary, not just a dramatic retelling. The trailer literally has the quote "I don't care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was black". At that point they're really treading the line between artistic license and pseudoscientific conspiracy theories.

I feel like the History Channel and Netflix documentaries like this have done enough damage to the mainstream public's view of ancient history. It's already difficult to find pop-sci content about ancient Egypt without a comment section spouting BS about aliens or Atlantis.