The idea of Julia Roberts playing Harriet Tubman has officially set Twitter on fire.
, which tells the story of Harriet Tubman, only hit screens at the start of the month, but it's been decades in the making; the film's screenwriter and producer, Gregory Allen Howard, has been working on it for a full 26 years.
But unorthodox doesn't even begin to cover it when it comes to the idea that Howard said a studio executive floated in a meeting about the film in 1994. "The climate in Hollywood, however, was very different back then," Howard continued. "I was told how one studio head said in a meeting, 'This script is fantastic. Let's getto play Harriet Tubman.' When someone pointed out that Roberts couldn’t be Harriet, the executive responded, "It was so long ago.
Where to begin with this suggestion? In case you, like the executive, need a refresher: Tubman, who was born into slavery, was a famed abolitionist, key conductor on the Underground Railroad, and American hero. She returned to slaveholding states nearly 20 times to help dozens of others escape slavery, long after she herself had escaped to the North.
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