Cleopatra Gets WORSE Netflix Director ADMITS Everything 

Queen Cleopatra on Netflix was always a show that had decided to change history. But before, you could only assume their reasons for it, many assumed it was done simply out of ignorance. But now the Netflix director herself has written an exclusive article for Variety and it's worse than anyone expected. Not only are Netflix getting sued by Egyptian Lawyers of Queen Cleopatra, but now experts who led Egyptian excavations and have even MET Jada Pinkett Smith are proving the Netflix documentary wrong. This story just gets crazier the more they try to excuse it, especially when they admit to being a "re-imagining" of history. But what did you think? Let me know your thoughts below and as always, thanks for watching :)

Saying Cleopatra was a black woman is like calling Jada Pinkett Smith a loving wife.

Imagine telling Egyptians that they're wrong to be offended by their history being blackwashed. How dare she.

It's not cleopatra.. The show is about jada's delusion or "how powerful and influential she would like to be"

“I imagine her wit-“ she isn’t a fictional character you don’t get to just- decide what she looked like 😭she was a real person

As an American that loves history, especially Egyptian history, I EXPECT documentaries to be historically accurate. If it's not, it's not a documentary.

Hollywood: "Pffft what does an Egyptian Egyptologist know about Egypt!?!"

"I imagine her with her with curly hair and the same skin color as mine!" You should never start a DOCUMENTARY with lines about how YOU think the historic figure should have looked like. Especially when there are numerous examples of what she actually looked like.

When they say “does a queen not have value if she’s black?” They’re really saying she doesn’t have value if she’s white in the first place, because they were the ones who felt the need to change it.

As an Egyptian, we suffer from this every day. Thank you for defending history. Black Americans have wanted to take over Egyptian history for decades

“We need to realize that Cleopatra’s story is less about her than it is about who we are” is pure gaslighting.

As a Scandinavian. I very much relate to the Egyptians having their history stolen and re-written. We've been suffering the same for decades with shows like Vikings directly contradicting the evidence of what our cultures where like.

This isn't a historical drama, this is a self-insert fanfiction

Now THIS is cultural appropriation.

There are many historical black African queens: Amina of Zaria, Nandi of The Zulu kingdom, Makers of Ethiopia (the queen of Sheba) and Kandake, the empress of Ethiopia, to name a few. Why can't Netflix make an original movie about them instead of race swapping?

It's a shame we have to sit front row and witness why Pinkett is just a toxic person and why Will looks so tired. A person that gets off on stirring the pot and causing drama is not a good partner unless they work to change that part of themselves. Pinkett not only isn't willing to change but appears to enjoy making people uncomfortable in order to control them. The best thing that we could have done is ignore her like we ignored her music career.

What is so stupid with what this director is doing is she literally could have just said it was a Cleopatra inspired character and she could have done whatever. I don’t understand why this has to even be a documentary!

I'm Egyptian and this is beyond ridiculous I was once talking about my country's history and then an American told me to keep myself out of black people's business 😂

What bothers me about Cleopatra being cast as black? The lie bothers me. Lies should bother everyone.

God they REALLY shouldn't have gone for a documentary angle or they just mightve gotten away without the entire world blasting them. Like they literally just made up every detail, treated it as fact, and expected to get away with it

"We need to realize Cleopatra story is less about her than it is about who we are" That's like saying "my opinion doesn't represent me!"

Director: "What bothers you so much about a black Cleopatra?" Greeks and Egyptians and history buffs: "What was it that bothered you so much about a Macedonian Greek one that you deliberately changed it?"

Who are you going to believe, actual archaeologists or someone's grandma

This reminds me of the story of the production of the titanic film. Some random stargazer told james cameron he didnt align the stars correct to the time period and he went in and manually changed the stars in the sky to be historically accurate. Yet an entire nationality is telling this director "you are misrepresenting the race of a real person" and she says "good"

“I’m not the same as a German” Me, with a disappointing sigh putting the “Einer von Uns” sign away (this scene has been dramatised for entertainment purposes)

Me: "What evidence do you have that Cleopatra was black?" Grandma: "Trust me bro."

I couldn’t believe it when I read that she said Egyptians were furious with her and she was okay with that , how disrespectful can she be ? It almost like she is intentionally stirring

The Big Question is how in the hell was she able to create this since fiction at the first place ?

What bothers us so much? It's amazing how people who whine about being "erased" pretend to be shocked when other people also don't like it.

This documentary is as faithful to history as Jada Pinket Smith is to Will Smith

Director: "What bothers you so much about a Black Cleopatra" Disparu: "I dont know love, what bothers you about a Greek one" ME: THANK YOU SIR! a large THANK you from the Greeks.

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." - Elie Wiesel

17:24 Fortuneteller to Jeda: "I see big things orbiting UrAnus"

'What bothers you so much about a black Cleopatra?' 'I don't know love. What bothers you so much about a Greek one?' 😂🤣

"What bothers you about a black Cleopatra?" Same thing that would bother you about having Mel Gibson play Malcom X.

2:04 iit's like explaining that human beings evolved from a select group of primates, to a person who thinks we came from mud

Lately, I was remembering quite a lot that phrase of Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". History is is as it is. Trying to changing it, either for ignorance or for the convenience of a political agenda, never leads to anything good.

As an American, we do not as a whole want to change history to push a narrative. Most of us think this is stupid

it's actually a good sign that most people think it's stupid. It shows that there's still a significant amount of people around who still have working brains.

When i someone ask you why shouldn't a person be a certain way to satisfy my views and feelings based on some fortune teller stuff i would honestly just classify him as mentally insane. Like the amount of stupidity i feel i have been exposed to make me question the sanity of those people and if they even know what the word History means and how different it is from imagination

You covered this better than anyone and made it funny too. Thanks for the information and the laughs! I cant wait for Saturday Night Live to take this on.

The only issue is that they insist calling it a documentary. This is false advertising and should be prosecuted as such.

I hope the Egyptian Government gets involved and drag both the Director and Producer through the courts and sue them right into bankruptcy, that's the only way these people are going to learn.

It's scary when people start rewriting history; it always ended badly

Being watching it several times, this is a great summarising video of everything wrong with this fiction series. Absolutely everything is rotten from historians, producers, director to actresses, scenes, dialogs. 😢

When making shows about historical figures it should NEVER be about "how you imagine them". Thats absolutely insane. I would get canceled if i made a documentary on barack obama.

She was probably among those who complained when HBO's series Chernobyl came out. For those who aren't aware, at that time there was complaining regarding the lack of representation in the show, you know, a show about a place part of Soviet Russia in the late 80s, with characters based on individuals for whom we have videos and photos of and no ambiguity regarding their skin color. Made me facepalm hard when I read that.

It’s also worth mentioning that the ancient Egyptians made some very large improvements to art, specifically to realism. They’re the first, as far as we know, to use proper proportions in art. It’s highly unlikely that they changed anyones skin color, as most of this art was religious, and highly venerated. The art would have been a nearly 1:1 copy of the subject.

58 seconds - 'what bothers you so much about a Greek one?' Nicely put Disparu. That's the way to answer these loaded questions. Turn it back on them and ask 'what bothers you about Anne Boleyn being white, about Britain banning slavery 30+ years before America did, about children being allowed to be children without having to read porn, about young teens waiting to develop enough to decide whether they want to be straight, trans or gay, about black people killing white people ten times the rate of white people killing black people, etc.'. In other words it's important to have faith in thousands of years of humanity and having faith in facts.

13:27 The whole _"this isn't about her it's about US"_ describes the whole woke movement. This isn't about story or being right it's about feeling SUPERIORITY to others. It's an _exercise of _*_PURE BLATANT NARCISSISM._*

Dude, actual Egyptians are severely pissed about this whole debacle and we dont even get close to denying that she was a Greek woman who ruled Ancient Egypt

I guess in all that research, they never learned about all the incest going on with royals in general, but especially the Ptolemys.

If i had African heritage, I'd actually be pretty pissed that the entertainment industry is choosing to blackwash non-black historical figures, instead of telling stories about people who were actually black.

The old lady: "My grandmother told me in the school they teach lies..." Right... Let me tell you one thing: "Your grandma LIED to you miserably and you believed her".

Can we just throw Jada away, I’m so sick of her trying to inflate her own ego

Could you link these articles in the description?

Funny, my grandmother always said “I don’t care what they teach you in school, Jesus was white.”

*"My grandmother said..."* That's the reason people think their family heirlooms are worth millions and their father is really their father.

Jada wanted to make a series about "Black Queens," only to instantly run out of said "Black Queens" and have to resort to changing other queens to black 🙈

fun fact: brits are technically genetically closer related to Egyptians than the rest of Africa. If African Americans do have Egyptian ancestry, it is from their "white" ancestors, not their black ones.

Producer: if you don't like it ,don't watch it The viewers: ok,done

Historical accuracy is less important than letting young African American girls know that they too can fail conclusively and die from a self-inflicted snake bite.

Every time they ask the question 'what bothers you about a black Cleopatra?', what they're really saying is 'Cleopatra's Greek heritage bothers us' and we know why, because it counters their revisionist Afrocentric ideology. The great part about this is that none of this would have happened if they hadn't gone and tried to call it a documentary, people would have just been calling out the Afrocentrism instead of *_actually filing lawsuits._*

Great presentation! Perhaps an Egyptian film-maker should make a "documentary" about George Washington with Cheech & Chong in the starring roles as George and Martha Washington and call it American history reimagined - Who Smoked The Cherry Tree. LOL

Imagine if Egypt or Greece decided to make a docu-series about someone like…say…Rosa Parks. And they decided to make her Middle Eastern, or Greek. Can you imagine the backlash? The directors would never be able to leave their homes, let alone work again.

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell

They could have taken a page from the History channel's Alien series, - " What if... 😂

Jada has NO shame. She doesn’t care who she hurts or lies to- whether it’s society at large or her own immediate family…

Woke Americans: "let's change Egyptian history to make a political point in the US" Also woke Americans: "why is it that everyone hates America? Must be Trump's fault!"

I guess the same people wrote this show who did Castlevania Nocturne, who turned Dorottya Szentes - a medieval hungarian maid of Elisabeth Báthory, who was burned as a witch and in the game, is indeed a witch - into a stiletto-heeled black egyptian vampire priestess.

My Great grandmother's, told all of their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren to never tell anyone outside of the family that we are descendants of Native Americans. And up until my son was born (1985), we didn't. Now we proudly claim it, along with all the others that contributed to our make up. Me , I'm a Heinz 57. My son says the same thing. I don't want anyone trying to change what makes us who we are. So I can fully understand why Egyptian's are P.O'd! No one has the right to change your history.

That old woman is the type of person that would also say "my grandma said no matter what they say or do the white man hates you".

Cleopatra was real, not "imagined", so can't be "reimagined"!

Funny thing is, the director looked exactly how i imagined she’d look like. Esp haircut

“WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN SMOKING?!” 😂

They should just call it a mockumentary instead and get on with it. Make it truly laughable, embrace the ridiculousness and stupidity!

Any sentence that starts "I don't care what they tell you in school" is liable to go badly.

Thanks for this rant. This kind of thinking has been percolating for some time, but I thought it had been put to rest back in the 1990s with Mary Lefkowitz's book Not Out of Africa. But no, we still have to battle against those who don't care about reality but prefer wishful thinking instead.

In ROME Cleopatra was portrayed by an actor with dark blond hair and a cute little tiny nose, unlike the Cleopatra profile coin, which showed a big straight nose. DIDN'T MATTER. *Her acting was amazing. The script was good.* She convinced me that that is how Cleo 7 could have used her mind and body to play power politics. *It is all about the acting.* (And yeah, that son of Ceasar was likely really his, not the son of some rando centurion, and was almost certainly killed by Octavian Augustus and did not survive, but that WAS good fiction, well written and acted.)

“What bothers me a lot about a black Cleopatra” is that this mini-series called itself a documentary when it is full of historical innacuracies. Kleopatra VII is of a Makedonian stock, mixed with a tinge of Persian blood (due to an intermarriage with the Seleukids), but not a Nubian nor a Kushite.

Love how Cleopatra saved the civil rights movement in America by beating King Kong in a fist fight...so brave.

Literally everything that surrounds this documentary just makes me only think one thought. *Plays clip of the Rick and Morty sun coming up over the horizon screaming bloody murder.*

She really just wrote self insert fanfiction and faked it as a documentary.

As an American female writer and historian of color (who has studied Egypt with experts myself), I've always known Cleopatra was Ptolemaic Greek. She also wasn't hot (like she's always portrayed), but she was known for her charm and intellect.

We had a similar situation in Sweden a couple of years back. They decided to make a "documentary" about the Swedish queens. It just happened to be full of modern political messages. Every king was made to be either a fool, incompetent, or cruel. And every queen was fantastic in every way; competent, intelligent, and adventurous. The worst part, though, was that half of the stories they told were completely made up or based on shaky evidence. So we had lesbian queens, queens having affairs, queens that ran the country in secret, queens that had a larger part of important international events than that actually had. Naturally real historians were outraged, but culture journalists and other journalists defended the "documentary" with very poor arguments. Critics were either anti-feminist or the critic didn't matter because the important part was to project a message to girls that women can or for entertainment value... Edit: There is nothing wrong with telling stories about things not mentioned in the history books such as a lesbian relationship. The point is that things shouldn't be described as true when they aren't or when the evidence is weak. Something real historians know. It's absolutely important to lift the historical figures that have been ignored by historians in the past because of ideological or racial beliefs. But there is no reason to race- or genderswap. The Swedish queens were interesting enough. There have been plenty of powerful or interesting women in, likely, all societies. By ignoring their history, and changing others, you are doing them a disfavour and actually just continuing on the old tradition of selectively choosing historical individuals and events to project your current political messages.

If someone would come along and make a documentary about the declaration of independence and life in northern America around 1776 and "reimagine" that slavery never existed, her head would explode.

I was thinking Dr. Zahi Hawass was missing from this panel of experts! I swear I have seen him in most of the documentaries I have seen about ancient Egypt.

The director making 'surprise pikachu face' at someone else not being COMPLETELY absorbed with gender and race is the most telling part of this. Another entry in the cult of narcissism.

My favorite part was when she said "The Ptolemys intermarried with the Selucid dynasty" Like oh....That other Greek family?

Did anyone check the education level of the grandma that knew Cleopatra's ethnicity?

I love how they’re claiming we’re the racist ones (us Egyptians) but like…..who’s gonna break it to them?

I live in America, and still shocked on a regular basis by how many people think that all Europeans are the same ethnic group, and that Africa is a single united country.

"it's not about her, it's about us (me)"...narcissism runs rampant in these social justice warrior sociopaths.

Yes, contemporary portraits of kings and queens was always skewed towards the romantic ideal of the time, and thus they're not always reliable. However, in the case of Cleopatra there are numerous greek, roman and egyptian sources about what she looked like, and thus we can build a far more accurate picture of her. Turns out she wasn't black after all. Shocker.

i can tell you as a Greek all of Egyptians like Greeks we allways had a good relationship.

I remember my grandmother telling me “No matter what they tell you in school, Abraham Lincoln was the first man on the moon.“ We had to put grandma away.

When people give up on objective truth and decide that truth is subjective, we are in serious trouble.

Imagine an Egyptian production company putting out a documentary on Martin Luther King jr. Or Malcolm X and using the whitest male actor to play these historic man in their series. We would not hear the end of the uproar.😵‍💫

"I went to Netflix and was appalled that their documentaries weren't exactly historically accurate." I don't know that that's on Netflix man.

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." - George Orwell, 1984