Borderlands of Rojava wrote:Insaanistan wrote:I heard about this, and no, an Israeli should not play an Egyptian queen.
As for what the ancient Egyptians looked like, well, that would be a lot like asking what an Arab looks like.
However, to say “Ancient Egyptian were white” would be false.
While yes, there were periods when ethnic Greeks ruled Egypt, occasional intermixing with black and brown Egyptians and life under the hot Egyptian sun had made them much darker than their Aegean counterparts. Egyptians were varying mixes of Abyssinian, Nubian/Kushite, Greek and Italian, and Coptic ancestry. Now, it’s that plus Arab ancestry, occasionally some Turkish ancestry, and in some relatively rare cases, Hausa ancestry.
Basically, if you want to portray an Egyptian correctly, use an actual Egyptian, or your average Arab, or even an Ethiopian or Sudanese.
But not an Israeli. Definitely not an Israeli.
The average Israeli looks like your average Arab. I've been there before and I couldn't tell them apart based on phenotype alone.
Maybe your average Syrian.