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irisblue

(32,829 posts)
Tue Nov 19, 2019, 11:57 PM Nov 2019

Julia Roberts as Harriet Tubman. ☠️. 1994 suggestion

Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) Tweeted:
Julia Roberts was suggested to play Harriet Tubman by studio exec, says Harriet screenwriter https://t.co/5d3RLKVIB1


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Snip--... "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."


Snip--" “I was told how one studio head said in a meeting, ‘This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman,'” Allen explained. “When someone pointed out that Roberts couldn’t be Harriet, the executive responded, ‘It was so long ago. No one is going to know the difference.'”


Bit more at the EW article...white men , still embarrassing decent people
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Julia Roberts as Harriet Tubman. ☠️. 1994 suggestion (Original Post) irisblue Nov 2019 OP
I think there are many good black actresses that can play Ms. Tubman demosincebirth Nov 2019 #1
But can any of them play Julia Roberts? Orrex Nov 2019 #3
... BlueMTexpat Nov 2019 #10
From the article irisblue Nov 2019 #2
Here's a recent interview from Variety BlueMTexpat Nov 2019 #12
That's the essential problem with Hollywood. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2019 #4
This is the running joke in "The Player". I call BS unc70 Nov 2019 #5
I'll check your post, if you read this one. OK? irisblue Nov 2019 #6
Read the LAT article. unc70 Nov 2019 #7
woooooooooooooow Afromania Nov 2019 #8
Not the Onion? tulipsandroses Nov 2019 #9
Ah yes, the resemblance BlueMTexpat Nov 2019 #11
1994 was a long time ago. qwlauren35 Jan 2020 #13
I get your point irisblue Jan 2020 #14
Uh huh qwlauren35 Jan 2020 #15

irisblue

(32,829 posts)
2. From the article
Wed Nov 20, 2019, 12:07 AM
Nov 2019

..."the historical drama based on Tubman’s life released earlier this month, stars Cynthia Erivo." She was good in the role

BlueMTexpat

(15,349 posts)
12. Here's a recent interview from Variety
Wed Nov 20, 2019, 04:39 AM
Nov 2019

with both Cynthia Erivo and Alfre Woodard. https://variety.com/2019/film/actors/actors-of-actors-cynthia-erivo-alfre-woodard-1203405674/

Cynthia Arivo and Alfre Woodard are at the forefront of this year’s awards conversation for two prestige films directed by black women. In Chinonye Chukwu’s “Clemency,” a movie that won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Drama category, Woodard plays Bernadine Williams, a steely prison warden damaged by the task of overseeing executions. For Erivo, who catapulted to fame in “The Color Purple” on Broadway, her tour-de-force turn as Harriet Tubman in Kasi Lemmons’ “Harriet” is her debut lead role in a movie. ...

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,750 posts)
4. That's the essential problem with Hollywood.
Wed Nov 20, 2019, 12:11 AM
Nov 2019

They don't understand that details actually matter. Like race.

I'm a former airline employee, and I'm often crazed by what they get wrong about airplanes and flights. I long ago came to the conclusion that the underlying problem is that they are too coked up to care.

"Iceberg, Goldberg, what's the difference?"

And if you don't get that reference, look it up.

unc70

(6,095 posts)
5. This is the running joke in "The Player". I call BS
Wed Nov 20, 2019, 12:31 AM
Nov 2019

In the movie "The Player", every movie idea being pitched would eventually involve Julia Roberts! This in turn became a cliché. I seriously doubt this story is real.

Someone is being punked with this. Go to IMDB, look up "The Player", then look through the trivia.

unc70

(6,095 posts)
7. Read the LAT article.
Wed Nov 20, 2019, 01:07 AM
Nov 2019

He might be sincere in believing this, but I think it more likely he was an outsider who did not get the "joke". Altman's view of Hollywood is more cynical than almost anyone's.

Afromania

(2,767 posts)
8. woooooooooooooow
Wed Nov 20, 2019, 01:25 AM
Nov 2019

woooooooooooooow


---Teenage me in 1994 receiving my wow waves from 2019---

"YOOOOOOOOOONOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!????!!!"


Hard to believe anybody is that insane, but seeing what we have for a "president". I've come to reevaluate the capacity for fuckery of certain segments of American society. Sadly, it now puts even the most insane of notions on the table to be believed in regards to race.

qwlauren35

(6,112 posts)
13. 1994 was a long time ago.
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 07:08 PM
Jan 2020

Twenty five years ago.

I know that it's post Civil Rights and people should have a clue, but it was definitely before we had a black president.

Please note, when I read it, I gagged. But 1994. Keep that in mind.

irisblue

(32,829 posts)
14. I get your point
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 07:13 PM
Jan 2020

There are more BIPOC in entertainment business now,


But WOW, Julia Roberts?


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