• @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    122 days ago

    Or Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra.

    Cleopatra was by ancestry mostly Greek. So I don’t get what you mean.

    Most of her subjects weren’t quite “black” either.

    Sorry for this interjection, but I hate wrong corrections, especially when they give up cute chains of thought like “queen of (hellenistic, that’s my own addition) Egypt -> Egypt’s in the African continent -> black”.

      • @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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        02 days ago

        Greek and ME people sometimes look very light. And face powders too exist.

        So I wouldn’t say there’s anything too weird with her appearance. I suppose portrayal of Americans in North Korean war films is weirder.