Gal Gadot in Cleopatra ulcer some, but what color was she?

Actress Gal Gadot in February 2020. -

actress Gal Gadot

will play Cleopatra with the same director who already directed her in the first two films around the superheroine.

But this choice did not only make people happy.

Internet users have risen to denounce this "bleaching": according to their reasoning Cleopatra being queen of Egypt, the actress chosen should be African.

But Gal Gadot is Israeli.

“Hollywood and its bleaching again”, sighs a user in the United States.

"So there was no Egyptian available to play, um, an 'Egyptian' queen?"

Another laments.

In France too the reactions were numerous: "It's a joke, Gal Gadot is Blanche", indignant a certain Angela-Dulcie.

“I have nothing against Gal Gadot but the role of Cleopatra is not made for her.

This role is for an ebony woman, Cleopatra was either black or mixed race.

It has been scientifically proven that Cleopatra is not white.

But this truth is inconvenient, ”said another person.

African origins, among others

Difficult to say exactly what was the color of Cleopatra's skin.

We know that the queen was nicknamed "the Greek" because of her belonging to the Ptolemaic dynasty of Macedonian origin.

But in a documentary called

, broadcast in 2009 by the BBC, claims that she also had African blood.

According to the BBC, analyzes have proven that human remains found in a tomb in Turkey were those of Cleopatra's sister, Princess Arsinoe IV, murdered on the orders of the Queen of Egypt.

A study of her skull showed that Arsinoe possessed African characteristics, which would tend to show that Cleopatra also had African origins.

A portrait reconstructed by the University of Cambridge indeed shows a Métis Cleopatra.

Cambridge University reconstruction of Cleopatra's face.

- University of Cambridge.

So she was probably a little less white than Gal Gadot.

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