Yes there are Egyptians with light skin but that is NOT a valid excuse to keep whitewashing Egyptian characters
Egypt was a rainbow, guys. What we think of as Egypt today is fairly small limited. Ancient Egypt stretched all the way into modern day Sudan in “Upper Egypt”, and hit the Med to trade with ancient Greek and Persian States in “Lower Egypt”. If you look at it on a map it’s basically right in the middle of Africa, Asia, and Europe. It had strong trade ties with desert tribes and ancient Arabic and Semitic states and it was invaded multiple times. By, like, everyone. Hittites, Greeks, Romans, Kushites, Sumerians, everyone got invaded by, invaded, or dealt with Egypt at one point or another. A lot of Egyptian rulers were very very, dark, others were fairer but still fairly Mediterranean. Egypt as a whole varied great depending on time period. region, and how urban it was, there were no hard and fast rules.
Which is why it’s so incredibly stupid to keep casting white people everywhere. One or two would not be amiss, maybe in a period appropriate Ptolematic dynasty piece or just to demonstrate the expanse and power of the ancient Egyptian empire. But they’re going to be wildly outnumbered by a whole range of shades of browns, blacks, and olives. Sayings, “Some Egyptians are white” is ridiculous when the truth is some Egyptians were pretty much everything.
A Middleground 