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BlueMTexpat

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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. ...

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
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