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The Cleopatra Costumes
“When I first got the call for the movie, I immediately pulled out all my DVDs and watched Cleopatra twice. Then we got a letter from 20th Century Fox that said if we made anything even remotely close to their clothes, they would sue us because they have the visual rights to them, so I just took a little bit of artistic license,” Perez explains. “The dress and cape [Lindsay] wears in the Cleopatra scenes is inspired by the original piece, but it’s our own version of it. The armor that Grant Bowler wears is actually from the movie Troy. I rented it from Warner Brothers.”
