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Adele James, the actress playing Cleopatra, responded to the backlash by framing it as a racist attack against her personally. She claimed that all criticism was "fundamentally racist," dismissing the genuine concerns of history enthusiasts and Egyptian audiences who felt misrepresented. James stated, "It would be naive of me to say that I didn't expect anything at all, but I didn't expect the scale of it."