Cynthia Erivo is an Oscar away from an EGOT. Now, she brings Harriet Tubman to the screen in a long-awaited biopic ?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=vf&utm_social-type=owned
We’re 52 minutes into lunch when Cynthia Erivo remembers she has to call someone to sing them “Happy Birthday.”
If you were to play Find the Breakout Movie Star among this Brooklyn vegan restaurant’s lunch crowd, you’d land on Erivo in about a second. She’s wearing a black denim minidress with a long-sleeve white shirt tied in front. A black baker-boy hat caps her snow-blond hair. The look is generously speckled with color: chunky orange Nikes, acid green glasses, bright blue nails.
Director and cowriter Kasi Lemmons had an inkling the casting might cause a stir, but says she saw undeniable upside. “I thought, Okay, here’s a petite woman who’s very strong, who can sing, who’s West African…I found a lot of similarities,” Lemmons says. It’s not lost on Erivo that Tubman’s legacy—with its moral clarity and literal heroics—makes her a ready subject for such 21st-century iconography and, regrettably, our current culture wars. Tubman’s portrait was to appear on a $20 bill redesign announced by the Obama administration. Trump treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin delayed it six years, citing technical difficulties.Erivo is generally frustrated by the current political climate.
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