The fact that a woman - Laeta Kalogridis - wrote the screenplay for the new Cleopatra film, a woman - Patty Jenkins - directs, and a self-confident oriental woman - the Israeli “Wonder Woman” actress Gal Gadot - plays the leading role should have feminist hearts let beat faster.
But no. The problem is of course the Jewess. The uprising against Gal Gardot is not only raging in social media, which a former head of the WELT features section rightly called the “dance floor of madness”. Even in the reputable Guardian, the film critic Hanna Flint wrote that the cast of Cleopatra with Gadot instead of a “North African” actress was another example of the “whitewashing” of the Egyptian queen, the “colonization of ethnicity by Hollywood”.