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Gharavi helmed Jada Pinkett Smith's four-part Netflix docudrama African Queens: Cleopatra and is currently ... and spent time researching the book's characters with the author.

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Her imminent turn as Cleopatra for the Rabble ... And so the plot is set in motion in Berlinski’s book, which takes inspiration from a 2017 article in The Times by Jessica Bennett, about ...

Here, she talks to us about the book’s surprising inspiration, among other things. There is a scene in Cleopatra And Frankenstein, the debut novel from writer Coco Mellors, that is plucked ...