[post_page_title]Elizabeth Taylor – Cleopatra (Cleopatra)[/post_page_title]
The figure of Cleopatra, Egypt’s last independent pharaoh, has beguiled people for 2,000 years. A woman who led her country in tumultuous, politically-charged times, she’s been portrayed in media countless times. The most famous, of course, is the 1963 movie starring screen legend Elizabeth Taylor.
In 2020, it was announced that another movie’s in the works, this time starring Jewish Israeli Gal Gadot, with Lady Gaga and Angelina Jolie having previously been linked to the role. We know Cleopatra was Macedonian-Greek on her father’s side, but her mother’s parentage may have been indigenously African, leading to accusations of whitewashing on both projects, old and new.
