Everyone needs to shut up about the race of the Ancient Eygptians

yes it's stop talking about white washing real black kings and queens, but let's complain about there being a black annie, a black girl playing rue in hunger games.




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As an American I can honestly tell you, no, I wouldn't. I'm more interested in the performance.

A similar discussion broke out over a recent Danish movie, Royal Affair. All 3 main roles were well acted, but people seemed far more upset by the fact that 1 of them, Doctor Johann Struensee, was played by a brown-haired actor when the actual man had blond hair, and that the whole movie was in Danish even though the language of the Danish court at the time was German (or sometimes French) and Struensee did not speak Danish at all.

White guys have played Othello, black guys have played Romeo, Native Americans have played Latinos, women have played men and men have played women. One of the better renditions of Richard II had Fiona Shaw in the title role.

So maybe you should look at why you are so uptight about this subject rather than assuming everyone else is.

I find this attitude especially amusing considering that Nonso Anozie has recently played Renfield in the tv series Dracula.

If this is the reason one chooses to watch or not watch a performance, then more power to ya, but you will miss out on great performances.

its proven george washington was white. that is a fact. these egyptians were not black.....darker skinned white people or like middle easterns...again even then the only blacks were slaves.

Kingsley can look enough like an Egyptian to pull it off. Egyptians aren't black Africans, so this is utter nonsense. Look at Omar Sharif. He played a Russian in Doctor Zhivago. When you cast a role like this, you want a great actor in the role, someone with charisma. Why go on a casting call to Egypt, sifting through unknown actors, searching for one with the right skill set necessary to participate in the project, when you've got a known actor right here, who more than fits the bill? I wouldn't do it. Kingsley would be at the top of my list of any project. He's got that thing that makes him compelling to watch.

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@byhisnoodlyappendage: I agree that "talented Egyptians" would be great in the roles of ancient Egyptians. However, for actual authenticity, those would have to be Copts, as the Copts are the descendants of the indigenous population extant when Egypt was conquered by Arab Muslims. Copts make up about 10% of the total population today. Many converted or intermarried so their Coptic identity has been lost. Sadly, I do not know of any Coptic actors. The most famous Copt whom I know is Boutros Boutros Galli. I have Coptic friends and can tell that the Copts are not "black," i.e., sub-Saharan. That must be a great disappointment to those who keep screaming that ancient Egyptians were "black." Sure, there was a Nubian dynasty for a few hundred years, but everyone knew that those were "black." So what "colour" were the actual Egyptians? That question takes pages and pages of history books without there being a definitive answer. I suggest studying about the Copts. The name itself is a corruption of "Aegyptos," the Greek word for "Egyptian."

BTW Pharaoh is a Hebrew word.

Yes, well us intelligent, educated people KNOW this. However this is the internet, and any moron is entitled to come here and spout their garbage. Why not just be entertained by their feeble minds?

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They were not closer to Middle Eastern than anything else. DNA tests proved they were closer to Sub Saharan Africans but keep continuing to beleive the whitewashed version of history in your lily white world.

People from the Middle East, N Africa, and S Asia are Caucasians.



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