https://thesource.com/2024/07/01/denzel-washington-in-gladiator-2-first-look-at-sequel-from-paramount-pictures/
This after Netflix picked him to play the Tunisian Emporor Hannibal
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He's not playing the Emperor, he's playing a freed slave who became a wealthy merchant. Chuds need to relax on this one, the Roman Empire was a multiethnic melting pot, it's not like a black man in medieval France or worse, Regency Era Britain.
!historychads I'm more offended by the Caracalla casting, they casted some post-wall bong twink to play him.
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I don't remember the source but I read somewhere that after taking over Egypt they became really neurodivirgent about the source of the Nile just like the British. And they traded a lot with Nubia and Aethiopia. So I guess black people in Rome looked like East Africans and not like African Americans who are mostly from West Africa.
But I don't have any issue with Denzel, since Romans are going to be played by random WASP mayos
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holy hells i would have preferred the black guy
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please dont be racist and capitalize the "b" in Black
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WTF a black man is playing a slave?
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