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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHarriet: Watch the First Trailer for the Powerful Tubman Biopic
Harriet Tubmans biopic treatment has finally arrived. In the new trailer for Harriet, Tony winner Cynthia Erivo plays the American hero, tracing her terrifying journey from runaway slave to heroic abolitionist via the Underground Railroad.
The trailer opens on Harriets initial escape, running away from a vicious slave owner (played by Joe Alwyn) and braving the unknown. Using a river and the North Star as her guide, she manages to make it out of the south and meet with William Still (Tony-winner Leslie Odom Jr.), a Philadelphia-based abolitionist who helps fugitive slaves find freedom. However, it doesnt take long for Tubman to decide that she has to go back and help free her family, as well as dozens of other enslaved people. Shes aided by Marie (Janelle Monae), a free black woman who helps train and arm Tubman for the journey ahead.
Directed by Kasi Lemmons (Eves Bayou), the biopic also weaves in other elements of Tubmans life, including her work leading an armed unit of the Union Army during the Civil War, and her tragic romance with former husband John Tubman, who married someone else after Tubman initially escaped. In a 2018 interview with Vanity Fair, Erivo promised the movie would offer a full portrait of the abolitionist icon, focusing on the human elements of her life that tend to get glossed over.
It was tough, though, to portray a woman who suffered so much hardship. If I was to stay in her body for a really long time, I would not make it out alive most days, Erivo said. Like, yesterday was an emotional day, doing the scenes where she finds out [Johns] with someone else. She sees it. She also has her epilepsyshe had seizures. So that whole day, I was essentially in character.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/07/harriet-tubman-biopic-trailer
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Harriet: Watch the First Trailer for the Powerful Tubman Biopic (Original Post)
demmiblue
Jul 2019
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Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)1. Recommended.
I can't wait to see it!!
think4yourself
(838 posts)2. Looking forward to this!
Cant wait!
love_katz
(2,581 posts)3. Huge kick and rec.
Wow! This looks like it will be so incredibly great. I will put it on my list of must-see.
klook
(12,159 posts)4. Fantastic!
Looks like it will be outstanding, and a much needed historical epic in this ignorant time.
Lisa0825
(14,487 posts)5. WOW!!! Looks great!!! nt