Guess Who Hollywood Wanted To Play Harriet Tubman
November 21, 2019
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as posted by the channelHollywood wanted Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman... Ana Kasparian, Jayar Jackson, and Adrienne Lawrence, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. MORE TYT
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"If you were to think of the most out-of-left-field actress to play Harriet Tubman in a movie, you still wouldn’t stumble upon the person one executive allegedly suggested.
Harriet, the historical drama based on Tubman’s life released earlier this month, stars Cynthia Erivo. But the film’s screenwriter and producer, Gregory Allen Howard, says when he first started working on the movie in 1994 that one studio executive suggested Julia Roberts to portray the legendary slave turned abolitionist. Yes, that Julia Roberts.
In a Q&A with Allen published earlier this month by Harriet studio Focus Features (and reiterated in an L.A. Times essay published Tuesday), Allen recalled how “the climate in Hollywood … was very different” some 25 years ago."
Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Jayar Jackson, Adrienne Lawrence
Cast: Ana Kasparian, Jayar Jackson, Adrienne Lawrence
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