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 ...
"It is more likely that Cleopatra looked like our actor than Elizabeth Taylor ever did." Last summer, I was living in Venice Beach and had decided, due to a friend’s persistence, to visit a fortune ...
EXCLUSIVE: Cleopatra Entertainment, the film division of Cleopatra Records, founded by Brian Perera, has joined forces with Sandaled Kid Productions, led by director James Cullen Bressack, to finance, ...
The EP behind Netflix‘s Queen Cleopatra docu-drama has defended the casting of an actor of mixed heritage descent in the title role, stating that Adele James reflects the “multicultural nature of ...
Netflix on Wednesday finally released its polarizing “African Queens” docu-series “Queen Cleopatra,” which depicts the Egyptian ruler as Black. But Egypt has already launched counterprogramming plans ...
Netflix's "Queen Cleopatra" is a docudrama released on May 10. It has received a 2% audience score with more than 5,000 ratings, possibly the lowest in TV history. The show received criticism prior to ...