Adele James, the star of Netflix’s docu-drama, ‘Queen Cleopatra’ has come out to react after Egyptian authorities accused Netflix of misrepresenting history by casting a Black woman to play Cleopatra.
While appearing on Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch with her co-star John Partridge, Adele James addressed the high-profile criticism about being a black actress playing Cleopatra.
She said, “It would be naive of me to say that I didn’t expect anything at all, but I didn’t expect the scale of it. And I think it’s distressing for anybody to receive any level of abuse, let alone the scale and the nature of what I’ve received, which is fundamentally racist, all of it. People are talking about the wrong things. Yes, we don’t know where her mother was from or her paternal grandmother, but also the show is about so much more than the question mark over her race.”
She continued, “If you watch, it is a very small part of the conversation really, this is about the fullness of who this woman was and she was a human being and she shouldn’t be reduced to her race any more than I should or anybody should.”
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