Cleopatra had a big, beautiful nose. So let’s see it onscreen | Radhika Sanghani

The latest retelling of the Egyptian queen’s life must reject Hollywood convention – and show her in her full aquiline glory

Cleopatra is having a remake. The Egyptian queen, so memorably immortalised by Liz Taylor in Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1963 film, is coming back to our screens. And this time it’s going to be “dirty, bloody, with lots of sex”.

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