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Cleopatra at 60: the expensive epic that almost tanked a studio

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Never mind Cleopatra – what about the forgotten queens of ancient Nubia?

Jada Pinkett Smith’s new Netflix documentary series on Cleopatra aims to spotlight powerful African queens. “We don’t often get to see or hear stories about Black queens, and that was really important for me, as well as for my daughter, and just for my community to be able to know…

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Elizabeth Taylor’s 20 best performances – ranked!

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Queen Cleopatra review: casting is not the problem with Netflix docudrama

Netflix’s drama-documentary made headlines last month when the Egyptian government denounced it as a “historical fallacy”, because the show insists that Cleopatra was black, said Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph. No one knows what colour Cleopatra’s skin was, but she is widely believed to have been of Greek-Macedonian descent.

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Netflix star's huge brain tumour only discovered when he started going blind at 45

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New Netflix show gets Rotten Tomatoes score of just 2% as its slammed as 'cringey'

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The Independent UK

Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra star responds to ‘fundamentally racist’ casting backlash

‘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,’ British actor said

The Independent UK

Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra star responds to ‘fundamentally racist’ casting backlash

‘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,’ British actor said

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