"Blackwashing isn’t a thing, is it?" she said, adding: "I find it sad that people are either so self-loathing or so threatened by Blackness that they feel the need to do that, to separate Egypt from the rest of the continent."
"When you make a documentary movie about an actual real person from history, if you race swap that person, then you didn't make a documentary, you tried to rewrite history the way you want it to be. Your movie is a work of fiction. Based on the life of a real person," one netizen tweeted.
"Cleopatra was of Greek descent. No African roots[...]. Cleopatra was white, get over it," they stressed.
"Ptolemy XII Auletes, a Greek general of Macedonia, was Cleopatra's father. Cleopatra's mother, who was either Cleopatra V or Cleopatra VI, had Greek fathers who were Macedonian generals. Cleopatra's odds of looking Greek, are better than her chances of looking African," one user commented.
"Cleopatra was provably light skinned. To claim otherwise is to ignore literally all available evidence based on genealogy, history, and even depiction," one netizen tweeted.
"So when Netflix race-swaps it's 'colorism'... Could have sworn there was an actual, accurate word for that," one user stated.
"5 years of complaining about cultural appropriation and why it is evil for white people to dress up as Native Americans, Indians, Japanese and Mexicans and now they dress a black woman up as a white Grecian woman. Riiiiight," a netizen tweeted.
"The problem is not the skin color, it's the trying to convince people it's fact!" another netizen argued.
"Good, go woke go broke. Especially for documentaries. At least be accurate," one user tweeted.