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Actress Rosheuvel (center) as Queen Charlotte in the series "Bridgerton": Bold lie or retrospective utopia?
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Maybe it's just a bold lie, or maybe it's a great retrospective utopia.
In the American series »Bridgerton«, which aired on Netflix at the end of December, the dark-skinned actress Golda Rosheuvel, 51, who was born in Guyana, plays Queen Charlotte of England, who sat on the throne until 1818.
Charlotte came from Mecklenburg.
The viewers who saw "Bridgerton" on more than 80 million accounts worldwide in the first four weeks apparently had no major problem with the cast.
Israeli actress Gal Gadot, 35, currently one of the most successful Hollywood stars thanks to her leading role in the "Wonder Woman" blockbusters, sees herself heavily attacked.
She wants to embody the legendary Ptolemaic ruler in the historical epic »Cleopatra«, almost 60 years after the movie classic of the same name with Elizabeth Taylor.
Gadot is not black enough for it, it was said, especially in the social networks.
The skin color of the regent, who is said to have taken her own life in 30 BC, is controversial.
Her father came from an old Macedonian noble family from the southern Balkan Peninsula.
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