Apropos Appropriation

If there’s one thing American moviegoers want to see in their campy computer-generated Hollywood blockbusters, it’s ethnically authentic actors.

Or so I imagine. Because of an unhealthy obsession with the ancient world, I was genuinely excited about the prospect of a new schlocky film called “Gods of Egypt.” I was excited, before I learned that the director and producers of the movie had been forced to apologize to the public for casting mostly Caucasian actors in the roles of Egyptian deities.