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Israeli actress Gal Gadot earlier announced she would be teaming up again with 'Wonder Woman' director Patty Jenkins to appear in a new film about the legendary Egyptian Queen Cleopatra.
Israel-born
actress Gal Gadot revealed on 11 October that she would be trying on the role of Cleopatra in a retelling of the epic made famous by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1963 classic, sparking an outcry over her casting as the legendary Egyptian Queen.
Gadot went on Twitter to share her excitement over joining forces again with "Wonder Woman" director Patty Jenkins for the "thrilling" new project, to be produced by Paramount Pictures and written by Laeta Kalogridis.
However, the announcement triggered a heated debate on social media, as some criticized the casting of an
Israeli actress as the Queen of Egypt, suggesting an Arab or Black woman might have better suited the role. The last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt, Cleopatra was born in Egypt and traced her family origins to Macedonian Greece and Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great's generals. However, accuracy was no impediment to ire among the usual suspects on Twitter.
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