(October 18, 2020 at 5:55 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I recently read an article reporting that some people are in high dudgeon over Gal Gadot being cast as Cleopatra in an upcoming film. This is mostly based on the unfounded and unproven notion that Cleopatra was a woman of colour.
Clearly, there are some roles where the ethnic appearance of the actor should reflect that of the historical figure that they’re portraying (this is why you never see a Japanese playing Abraham Lincoln, for example, or an Irishman playing Nelson Mandela), but I think this flap over Gadot is nonsense.
Boru
I'm in two minds about this, I can see that in a perfect world a competent actor should be able to play any part. But Anachronistic colour casting makes the past look nicer than it was and destroys ruins accuracy of the representation of the past. The main offenders seems to be british productions where they have things like polynesians cast as medieval maidens or a japanese lawyer in victorian london. No matter how accurate the rest of the production is or the quality of the acting it takes me out of the reality and grates.
Gal Gadot though would not be impossible as Cleopatra who was after all a Ptolemy of Greek origin.
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