Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman,” said the then-president of a studio sublabel. Fortunately, there was a single black person in that studio meeting 25 years ago who told him that Harriet Tubman was a black woman. No one will know that.”Thus began the epic 25-year journey of getting my Harriet Tubman script to the screen. Producers John Watson and Pen Densham, partners in Trilogy Entertainment, called me in to discuss commissioning a script about Harriet Tubman. AdvertisementWhat I realize now is that the film was not going to get made until the environment in Hollywood changed — Hollywood had to go through its own climate change.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 19, 2019 12:22 UTC