Should Hollywood cast another white Cleopatra?
Clockwise from bottom left, Elizabeth Taylor, Angelina Jolie, Vivian Leigh and Claudette Colbert
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By Talia Whyte
Who knew that Cleopatra VII would be the center of a racial commotion in Hollywood? It was reported in The Guardian recently that Angelina Jolie is slated to play the role of the Egyptian pharaoh in a new film based on a biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff. Jolie’s life partner Brad Pitt might also get to play her love interest Mark Antony, which is reminiscent of the onscreen/off screen relationship between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in the 1963 film version. According to the film’s producer, “the movie is being developed for and with Jolie.”
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