Why is it that in films like the 'The Mummy', the actors who play the ancient egyptians are always white?

Question

Don't they realise the ancient egyptians were in fact black

Answer 1

Well the ancient egyptians themselves must have been embarassed about their skin colour, because in egyptian scripture and hyroglyphs the majority are represented as tan or olive coloured.

Answer 2

Because Hollywood is the Man and they are keeping the brother down. Why pay black actors the man thinks when the pasty white guy can be used.

Answer 3

That may be so......but does it matter if they are wrapped in bandages for most of the time ?

Accuracy in films like these are always suspect anyway - thats why any American film of England has us all drifting around with floppy haircuts (like Hugh Grant), living in thatched cottages, quaffing mead or cider, while languishing in the corner of a sunny field in the shires watching a game of cricket.

Answer 4

I Sphinx it has something to do with them spending too much time inside the pyramids, oh and popoular misconceptions within the movie industry

Answer 5

Only in Upper Egypt - e.g., the Nubians. Try a bit of research next time !

Answer 6

Hollywood's, Central casting's narrow mindedness and that's if we are being generous.

Answer 7

light brown actually. but who would pay money for THEM kind of actors. they would plow there wages into terrorism. rant rant rave

Answer 8

But they're covered in dust!

Answer 9

no the directors are all thick thick thick, they only have to look at the picture inside tombs to realise that!

Answer 10

Is your question discrimination in reverse?