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African Queens is a 2023 docudrama series focusing on female monarchs, airing on the streaming service Netflix.The series is produced and narrated by Jada Pinkett Smith and features dramatized fictional re-enactments as well as interviews with experts.
[1] [3] In 2023, she was given the starring role as Cleopatra in the second installment of Netflix's African Queens docuseries, Queen Cleopatra. [4] Her casting faced controversy surrounding the Cleopatra race controversy .
In October 41, Antony requested Rome's chief eastern vassal, the queen of Ptolemaic Egypt Cleopatra, meet him at Tarsus in Cilicia. Antony had first met a young Cleopatra while campaigning in Egypt in 55 BC and again in 48 BC when Caesar had backed her as queen of Egypt over the claims of her half-sister Arsinoe.
"Queen Cleopatra" director Tina Gharavi defended the series' casting decision last month in an essay for Variety, arguing that the queen looked more like James than Elizabeth Taylor, the actor who ...
CAIRO — Egypt has accused Netflix of misrepresenting history by casting a Black woman to play Cleopatra, its most famous historical figure, in a new series. “Queen Cleopatra,” which is ...
The upcoming series from Jada Pinkett Smith drops on the streaming service this May. Netflix’s upcoming docudrama series is already The post Netflix Black woman-led ‘Queen Cleopatra ...
A government-owned Egyptian broadcaster has responded the casting of a Black actress to play Cleopatra in the Netflix docudrama series “African Queens,” which streams from May 10, by ...
African Queens (Queen Cleopatra) This 2023 docudrama produced for Netflix is about the lives of historical female monarchs from Africa . While the first season about Nzinga , Queen of Ndongo and Matamba (now present day Angola ) was received well by audiences and critics, the second season about Cleopatra , Pharoh of Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt ...