The British actress in a podcast addressed the docuseries from Jada Pinkett Smith after criticism from the Egyptian government for the casting of an actress of mixed heritage to play the late pharaoh.
Netflix declined comment on the docuseries’ creative choice to cast James, who is of mixed heritage, to play Cleopatra to reflect historical research that points to Egypt’s population in ancient times being multicultural and multiracial.
“Her ethnicity is not the focus of Queen Cleopatra, but we did intentionally decide to depict her of mixed ethnicity to reflect theories about Cleopatra’s possible Egyptian ancestry and the multicultural nature of ancient Egypt,” the producers of the series told
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