Gal Gadot is our badass Egyptian queen on screen

Wonder Woman’s lead star Gal Gadot, together with its director Patty Jenkins, are teaming up again, this time with screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis (Alita: Battle Angel and Shutter Island), to bring back the story of Cleopatra on the big screen.

Gadot broke the news to the world when she tweeted a picture of the oil painting of Cleopatra by the 19th-century painter Frederick Arthur Bridgman along with the announcement of her casting as Cleopatra. 

Acknowledging the #InternationalDayoftheGirl with an inspiring tweet, “We hope women and girls all around the world, who aspire to tell stories will never give up on their dreams and will make their voices heard, by and for other women.”

The news made Gadot’s fans brim with excitement, but others didn’t take the news so well. The Israeli actress was under fire recently for supposedly ‘whitewashing’ the infamous queen. 

This backlash sparked an online debate on Gadot’s ethnicity and Cleopatra’s heritage. There are some that think the producers should have casted an African or Arabian actress for the role.


Kalogridis took to Twitter as well to share her own thoughts on the announcement, seemingly hinting at the backlash Gadot received.

POP! Creator Community / Nicole Valdez

Read more...