Current Events > If there's one film that should be remade, it's Cleopatra Jones.

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We had a Black female James Bond in 1973. Hollywood has gotten better about this in recent years, but there was a long stretch where people would say, "But there aren't any (insert group here) stars," when it came to the prospect of telling a story with a certain type of protagonist.

I think remaking Cleopatra Jones, and reminding people that the original was from the 1970s, is a way of really letting people know that there should always be room for inclusion. Anyone, Black, Asian, lesbian, gay, Arab, transgender, etc., should be able to be a star and be the hero of their own story.

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And I think that her presence in a new movie would be a reminder that opportunity has been cyclic and that we need to make sure that that door never closes again. We need never get back to the point where only White male heroes get to be heroes.