“They Are Stealing My Culture!” Bassem Youssef On Netflix’s ‘Cleopatra’ Casting

Piers Morgan Uncensored is joined by Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef and author Ernest Owens to debate Netflix hiring non-Egyptian actress Adele James to play Cleopatra in a new Netflix show about the Pharaoh Queen.

Bassem is quick to point out the hypocrisy shown by Netflix and Hollywood for trying to defend the ‘cultural appropriation’ of Egyptian culture whilst constantly defending other groups from the same thing. He adds that they are stealing his culture and that people like Kevin Hart feed into the problem by trying to ‘rewrite history’ of Egypt with things such as the pyramids and who built them.