in an upcoming Paramount film, a casting that has drawn criticism for an Israeli actress playing the role of the legendary queen of Egypt.
"As you might have heard I teamed up with @PattyJenks and @LKalogridis to bring the story of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, to the big screen in a way she’s never been seen before. To tell her story for the first time through women's eyes, both behind and in front of the camera," Gadot wrote. “I love embarking on new journeys, I love the excitement of new projects, the thrill of bringing new stories to life. Cleopatra is a story I wanted to tell for a very long time.
Kalogridis specified on Twitter that she was looking forward to writing the story of Cleopatra,"arguably the most famous Macedonian Greek woman in history." Cleopatra was of Macedonian descent and had little, if any, Egyptian blood.was not convinced and blasted the decision on Twitter. She asked who in Hollywood"thought it would be a good idea to cast an Israeli actress as Cleopatra instead of a stunning Arab actress like Nadine Njeim? And shame on you, Gal Gadot.
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Cleopatra is an iconic woman from ancient world...she was by all accounts very clever and sought to keep Egypt from turning into a Roman province. I can understand upset as it seems WOC being excluded. The fear is she'll use the role as filmic hagiography about Israeli pluck
From what we historically know, Cleopatra was neither Jewish nor Arab (there was no such classification at the time(. If anything she was descended from Greek Macedonians (her ancestor was Ptolemy).
Gal Gadot worked in the occupation army during the war on Lebanon in 2006 and said that the weapon's experience helped her to play her role in the famous fast & furious film. Shame on you
Cleopatra !! It doesn't even look like it !!! Gal Gadot participated in the Israeli crimes and the massacres that took place in the Gaza Strip did not deserve to be included in this great movie.
It should be noted here that Gal Adout registered a supportive position for the massacres of the occupation forces in the 2014 war on Gaza
Gal Gadot worked in the occupation army during the 2006 Lebanon war, and she said that the experience with weapons helped her to perform her role in the famous movie Fast & Furious. She is a big criminal!Pouting face
Gal Gadot proudly served and continues to support Israeli colonial army notorious for maiming and murdering Palestinian civilians.
Her being an advocate of war crimes should draw more critique though her not being Greek is pretty sus:
She supports the Israeli colonial army known to maim and kill Palestinian civilians and encourage him to kill more innocent people!😡 IsraeliCrimes FreePalestine 🇵🇸
Gal Gadot is a racist Israeli actress who worked in the occupation army during the 2006 Lebanon war, and she said that the experience with weapons helped her to perform her role in the famous movie Fast & Furious.
Gal Gadot is proud of her service in the occupation army and her constant support for the killing of Palestinian civilians, as she supported the massacres of the occupation forces on Gaza in 2014. She doesn't deserve this role at all.
Gal Gadot is proud of her duty in the Israeli occupation army, and supports it in killing the innocent Palestinians !
Gal Gadot is proud of her work in the Israeli army after Lebanese war 2006 and announced that the bombs and the use of it helped her to film her famous film:Fast&Furious !
She supports the Israeli colonial army known to maim and kill Palestinian civilians and encourage him to kill more innocent people!😡 IsraeliCrimes FreePalestine 🇵🇸
she doesn't deserve to take this role & to be represented! She's just fatal! & partner with the Israeli occupation in all its wars on Gaza & supports the occupation to further kill innocent Palestinians!😡 IsraeliCrimes FreePalestine 🇵🇸
Gal Gadot worked in the occupation army during the 2006 Lebanon war, and she said that the experience with weapons helped her to perform her role in the famous movie Fast & Furious. She is a big criminal!😡 IsraeliCrimes FreePalestine 🇵🇸
Gal Gadot is proud of her service in the criminal Israeli occupation army and her constant support for the killing of innocent Palestinian civilians and the theft of their rights and lands! It doesn't deserve to be in this position!😡 IsraeliCrimes FreePalestine 🇵🇸
Gal Gadot proudly served and continues to support Israeli colonial army notorious for maiming and murdering Palestinian civilians.😑😑
This Israeli actress supports the killing of innocent children in Palestine. She is a person devoid of humanity☻
Gal Godat was a supporter of the 2014 massacres of the occupation forces in Gaza
Gal Gadot is proud of her service in the occupation army and her continued support for the killing of Palestinian civilians
The same was said when Puerto Rican Jennifer Looez played Selena. Get over it!!!
It's a shame to be a member of the criminald
It's a shame to be a member of the criminald
It's a shame to be a member of the criminald
Gal Gadot is known for her support of massacring native Palestinians during 2014 Israeli offensive on Gaza.
Gal Gadot proudly served and continues to support Israeli colonial army notorious for maiming and murdering Palestinian civilians.
Gal Gadot is known for her support of massacring native Palestinians during 2014 Israeli offensive on Gaza.
Gal Gadot served in Israel's occupation amy while it was bombing Lebanon in 2006. She said her 'knowledge of weapons' helped her in her acting role in Fast & Furious.
Egypt was ruled by a whole litany of dynasties over thousands of years from around the Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa. I see no problem with Gal Gadot's casting since she is from Israel, which borders on Egypt.
Really finding out today how little many people know about Cleopatra.
Your article is quoting a journalist who was fired from RT after praising Stalin’s gulag.
Your throwing money in the trash. It’s 2020 no one thinks cleopatra is that shade. No one will go to a whitewashed film. facts
Terrorist criminal.
She's not as pretty as Cleopatra 😎+racist+ex_israeli soldier !!
Holy crap - it’s a movie - it’s make believe - tom Hank’s was never stranded on an island — what a slap in the face to survivors! And he wasn’t an astronaut either! The horror!
It’s called acting. You play a part who you are not really. Next thing you know criminals will be upset for not being cast as criminals in movies. If this bothers you then why are you not upset about the cast of HamiltonMusical
If we want to nitpick, Cleo was of Macedonian decent so they should really cast a Greek actress
Stop making racist people famous👊 I'm calling her racist because she's an ex soldier in the Israeli military, who was proud of her felo soldiers when they kill Palestinians.
Get over it people. It's a movie.
Elizabeth Taylor played Cleopatra and the movie became a classic. Isn’t the art of being an actor is being able to portray different characters and make the audience engaged in their performance?
Cleopatra was NOT Eygptian ! She was an ethnic Macedonian
Acting is a political agenda to make people accept the Israelis this is pathetic !! This women is not even half pretty as the woman's of egypt nor the women's of sham ✅ This is an ex soldier who killed thousands of Palestinians 👊 She's disgusting to me 👎 FreePalestine 🇵🇸
Hollywood had destroyed itself with these “woke” politics.
Cleopatra wasn't white
Creativity transcends Boundries borders and walls
I think Cleopatra should be played by a heavyset Korean man; or by his friend, Dennis Rodman.
who is to play this big role ? I'll tell you 'She's a war criminal, shes actually proud of killing Palestinian civillence' P.S: Cleopatra is much prettier I'm positive 👎😏
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Let me see if I have this straight, nobody had any problem with WASP Liz Taylor playing Cleopatra but an individual from the same region is unacceptable? Strange!
Bland looking? She is stunning. And it's called ACTING.
Sing it like the Bangles classic
Uhmm ok...
Greatness transcends petty boundaries and borders. Gal Gadot was chosen bc of her superb acting abilities, beauty and charm :)
Gal Gadot is known for her support of massacring native Palestinians during 2014 israeli offensive on Gaza.
Gal Gadot proudly served and continues to support israeli colonial army notorious for maiming and murdering Palestinian civilians israel steal the Palestinians homeland.
Gal Gadot served in israel's occupation amy while it was bombing Lebanon in 2006. She said her 'knowledge of weapons' helped her in her acting role in Fast & Furious.
Gal Gadot is known for her support of massacring native Palestinians during 2014 Israeli offensive on Gaza.
Gal Gadot proudly served and continues to support Israeli colonial army notorious for maiming and murdering Palestinian civilians.
*EYE ROLL* people need to get a life and worry about more serious issues. It’s a MOVIE, she’s an ACTRESS. That’s the point people. She is just PLAYING a role.
Who cares the nationally of the actor or actress. She is good that is all that matters.
Israel attempts to steal everything. Their land grabs of late have been plenty! BDS apartheid!
Cleopatra wasn't that bad 🤢🤢
Cleopatra was Greek
Apparently these idiots don’t know Cleopatra was Greek.
Well isn't that ironic
Like always put a white person to play a black person, never changing.
What’s the big deal? Elizabeth Taylor was an English-American actress...
Funny... all these years I thought these people were suppose to be actors and act as people they are not... well get out the 23 and me resumes and find Cleopatra’s real decent or you can’t make the movie... do they really expect people to take them seriously anymore?
ROFL.
Can they find an Egyptian actress who hasn't had her genitals mutilated?
everyone forget that it is called ACTING/ PRETENDING?
Referring to a white lady as “very bland looking” is racist
Get over it.
Cleopatra was Greek
It’s called ACTING, folks! Geeze! Would you woke whiny babies go back to sleep? The same woke crowd has said nary a word about black men portraying white men in Hamilton. GMAB!
I hear the sounds of the subtle racism beginning and saying through the wind: “But, I’m not racist!” And...the wind say, “There’s just a tiny bit of racist criticism that you have that needs help. Think harder!”
She is an ACTOR. It’s a role for goodness sake. Calm down people. We have more serious issues to deal with! 🤦🏼♀️
Historically inaccurate images
That by itself is moronic, Cleopatra belonged to Greek Ptolomaic Dynasty, a Greek actor can portray the famous queen.
antisemitism
As cleopatra was Greek by ancestry, she probably looks in line with history.
It's sad so few people know history. Cleopatra was born in Egypt but her ancestors were Greek going back to one of Alexander the Great's generals. She was not Arab.
When we’re all gonna die from a virus, let’s find something really inconsequential to fight about. Geezus.
Who cares? It’s just a movie. Movie theaters will be nonexistent soon anyways bc of stupid lockdowns
first world problems, now concentrate on hunger and stopping the ANTIFA BLM riots
PARFAIT!!!
C leopard ' s dynasty was Greek. Why is this a problem too? 05 hen Elizabeth Taylor played the role was there a problem ?
Said no one on the left about the Broadway production of hamilton.
Cleopatra was 5 feet tall 😅
This is going to flop hard. Terrible casting, in my opinion. Not because she is Israeli, but for many other reasons, including her acting and skin tone. Should at least be caramel tones in sunny Egypt.🌴🌅🐪🐫🌙
Yeah, well, we fucking built the Pyramids and anyway, Cleopatra was Greek. Looks like your headline writers are on par w/ Page's ludicrous moderating.
Eh, I'm gonna take issue with the whole 'Gal Gadot is bland looking' thing. Just sayin
IT IS ACTING!!!! It should NOT matter where she comes from - she should not be judged on race or background or colour or anything else - but the fact this she is a rather good actress!!! So get over it...
Cleopatra was Macedonian Greek, granddaughter of Ptolemy, Alexander the Great's general who ruled Egypt after 305BC. Gadot is pretty good match.
Only works with muppets.
It is a movie. It is not that serious.
at that time, jews were slaves in egypt
It’s a insult Cleopatra will look more like Halle Berry type
This is gonna be interesting Egyptian
From what i see the only ones making this a story is you .....
😍 this gomna be interesting 👍🏻Egyptian
Anti-Semites are Satanic.
Cleopatra was not Egyptian.
But she was bland..but highly intelligent..
Who cares? Don't be bigots
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