Casting of Angelina Jolie instead of a black actress as Cleopatra fuels race debate. The news that Angelina Jolie has been hired to play Cleopatra in an upcoming biopic has some in the African-American community fuming that Jolie is "too white" to play the famous Egyptian pharaoh.
A commentary entitled Another White Actress to Play Cleopatra? insists: "Honestly, I don't care how full Angelina Jolie's lips are, how many African children she adopts, or how bronzed her skin will become for the film, I firmly believe this role should have gone to a black woman." Source