Elizabeth Taylor’s shoes are impossible to fill perfectly, but choosing Gal Gadot to reprise the Golden Age starlet’s most iconic role, if the then-record price tag of producing the 1963 epic is any indication, will bring both the cinematic chops and the name recognition to justify what will surely become a behemoth of a blockbuster.

And yet, the wokes have run amok, aghast at the proposition that Gadot, an Ashkenazi Jew born and raised in Israel, could play the epic Egyptian empress. Evidently, Gadot’s haters skipped one too many history classes, considering that the real Cleopatra was neither black nor Arab.