In response to Netflix casting a mixed race actress to play Cleopatra in a new series, a government-owned Egyptian media station says it will produce a documentary depicting the queen with an actress ...

Few creative selections kick conversational hornet’s nests like a producer’s decision to cast a person of color in a role long associated with whiteness. Choosing biracial actor Adele James to play ...

Netflix’s upcoming docudrama “Queen Cleopatra” – the second in the “African Queens” series of historical projects – has sparked outrage across Egypt over its casting of a biracial actor to play the ...

The director of the upcoming documentary series “Queen Cleopatra” brushed off criticisms of “blackwashing” over her choice to cast a Black actress as the famous Egyptian queen. Tina Gharavi penned a ...