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Originally Posted by Edward64
I'll watch any Gal Gadot movies (definitely easy on the eyes) but IMO they should try to find an Egyptian actress for this (yeah, there's claim she is really Greek but there was 300 or so years of Ptolemic dynasty in Egypt so let's call her Egyptian).
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It would be nice to have an Egyptian in the role I guess, but yeah, the Ptolemies were Macedonians originally but there is enough unknown mothers and Persian brides etc across the generations that it makes the whole discussion of race a bit dumb, especially when comparing it to modern races/nationalities. Its possible that a modern Egyptian would genetically not be any/much closer to Cleopatra than Gal Gadot, given what happened in Egypt/North Africa in the first millennia post-Cleopatra especially.
I hope the movie doesn't suck because she is an interesting character and it's a very interesting story, but my guess is that we get a bloated 2.5/3 hour love story.