Posted on 06/21/2010 7:43:10 AM PDT by re_tail20
Angelina Jolie is one of the most beautiful women in the world, but her "perfect" looks have some critics complaining she's all wrong for her latest role.
Earlier this month producer Scott Rudin got the Internet buzzing with his announcement that he was developing a Cleopatra biopic "for and with Jolie" based on Stacy Schiff's book "Cleopatra: A Life."
Schiff raved about the choice, telling USA Today, "Physically, she's the perfect look."
But some members of the African American community beg to differ -- they are outraged by the casting decision and say Jolie is "too white" to play the Egyptian Queen.
"I don't care how full Angelina Jolie's lips are, how many African children she adopts, or how bronzed her skin will become for the film," Shirea Carroll wrote in an editorial for Essence.com.
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Cleopatra was white. Greek, specifically.
Too white? Cleopatra was Greek! If anything, AJ is too DARK!.................
Of the Ptolomey family.
So, just how ‘black’ are Greeks?
So, just how ‘black’ are Greeks?
Besides, I don’t think Angelina is attractive at all. Those lips look like she was punched repeatedly by Brad Pitt.
They’re probably criticizing her because her father is John Voight - a CONSERVATIVE.
Greek olives are black.
That’s about it.
Cleopatra was not Black. She was Greek, or more precisely, Macedonian. She was a descendant of Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great's generals.
A beautiful woman, yes. One of the most beautiful on the planet - no.
“So, just how ‘black’ are Greeks?”
The Greeks are as black as the so-called Palestinians are Greek (Palestinian = Philistene = Crete)
They’re confusing Queen Cleopatra with Queen Latifa.
pING
idiots. Cleopatra was Greek! That’s pretty white to me.
I always wondered when it exactly it became en vogue to show Cleopatra as black. It makes no sense considering her Greek ancestry as someone else mentioned...just ignorant people being ignorant...
Paul Giamatti criticized as too white to play John Adams.
Obviously a product of urban public eductaion.
The new Biopic on George Washington will be played by Denzel Washington.
There is a school of thought within America that believes the Egyptians were black, not, well Egyptian. This school also believes that Alexander’s Generals that ran Egypt were black as well. If you don’t believe me, just ask Reverend Wright. Racial envy is an ugly thing to watch. Hell when indulged it can elect morons to high office.
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