Netflix has found itself at the centre of a debate over the casting of Cleopatra in a new documentary series. Arriving on the streaming service in May, the four-part documentary Queen Cleopatra (a ...

Netflix’s upcoming docudrama “Queen Cleopatra” in which Britain’s Adele James, who is of mixed heritage, plays the first-century Egyptian ruler as a queen with African roots is sparking an uproar in ...

Responding to Netflix casting a Black woman as Cleopatra, a government-owned Egyptian media outlet is making a documentary that will depict the queen with an actress whose features and coloring are ...

The Ptolemaic queen of Egypt was a reason for a heated discussion when, in 2020, Gal Gadot was cast as Cleopatra in a Paramount Pictures’ film that never went to production. Apart from some media ...

Netflix is accused of "trying to provoke confusion by spreading false and deceptive facts that the origin of the Egyptian civilization is Black." “African Queens: Queen Cleopatra” is coming under fire ...