He added: 'The controversy is about Cleopatra being black, I don't hear anybody saying that Julius Caesar is a homosexual from Manchester. '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.'Īdele was appearing in the show with her co-star John Partridge, best known for his time in EastEnders. 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. 'People are talking about the wrong things. '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. To be black or mixed race or a non-white person in the world today, especially in the western world, is kind of a political act in and of itself.Īdding of accusations of black-washing: 'It's sort of just a made-up term, like people just coined it all of a sudden for their agenda.Ĭleopatra was famously played by white English actress Elizabeth Taylor opposite Richard Burton as Mark Anthony in Joseph L. Ms James said of the role: 'It is political. An Egyptian lawyer has filed a case with the country's public prosecutor demanding that Netflix be shut down. The show, which was released on May 10, features claims that Cleopatra VII was black with 'curly hair' and a historian saying 'I remember my grandmother saying to me: I don't care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was black.'Įgyptians reacted with dismay at the apparent rejection of records which show Cleopatra was Macedonian-Greek. The black actress starring in Netflix's 'Queen Cleopatra' docudrama said it was a 'political act' to cast her - and laughed off controversy engulfing the show.Īdele James, 27, takes on the role of the famous queen from the land of the Pharaohs.
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