With the 35-year-old beauty in in mind, film producer Scott Rudin has purchased the film rights to upcoming biography Queen of the Nile, Cleopatra: A Life opposite Brad Pitt.
The casting has angered members of the African who say the role should have gone to a black actress.
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'Today it is a studio being held to ransom, tomorrow it will be a government, an entire nation. I don't see anyone laughing when that happens,' says Suparn Verma.