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An Egyptian playing an Egyptian.

posted 8 years ago by cathy-creswell
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It makes me happy they cast Rami Malek as Ahkmunrah. Hes Coptic so that means he has true egyptian blood. The casting director did well here.

[–] answer777 7 years ago

You understand that there was first the native Americans in America who were then displaced by whites through conquest. Well in Egypt there were the Egyptians who were displaced by Arabs through conquest. By your logic, the white Americans are the ancient Americans. Rami malek is a descendant of the Arab invaders.

[–] vicky_lc2001 (1907) 5 years ago

Coptics are Christians and were around before the Arab conquest. And no, no matter how much you want to steal ancient Egyptian history, Egyptians were not subsaharans nor Black. How would Moses, a Jew, A semite like many Arabs, pass as an Egyptian if they don't have similar looks.

[–] Philip_90 7 years ago

Uh, not exactly. Rami Malek was born in USA so he's not a "true Egyptian blood" person, at least not in the sense he wasn't born actually in Egypt.

Having blood from and being from are entirely different cases.

[–] vicky_lc2001 (1907) 5 years ago

By Egyptian blood, the OP is referring to his ethnicity, his genes, his ancestry, not his nationality which is American.

[–] ThrillerTalk (1118) 6 years ago

Don't see why it's a big deal anyway. This is acting which can be great by a really good worker of that field who studies their part and delivers when those cameras start rolling.

[–] UserNameExists (58) 2 years ago

"If anyone cast a movie with someone who is not from the culture which that movie is about you are fucking out of here!"

[–] PaladinNJ (20308) 2 years ago

I prefer to think in terms of an Actor playing a role.