The Crack Is Strong Out In Hollywood

November 21. 2019

Julia Roberts (left) and Harriet Tubman (right). I totally see the resemblance. I mean, they look like twins.

Hollywood likes to brag about its liberal leanings, regarding how culturally sensitive and tolerant they are as people. However, it is not true. Stories always come out about just how racially insensitive and racist the industry is regarding people of color.

Take for example the story this week revealing a Hollywood executive thought white actress, Julia Roberts, was perfect to play black anti-slavery hero, Harriet Tubman. I kid you not. Hollywood is insane to even contemplate such a thing, but it happened.

Screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard revealed regarding a studio executive, "I was told how one studio head said in a meeting, 'This script is fantastic. Let's get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.' When someone pointed out that Roberts couldn’t be Harriet, the executive responded, ‘It was so long ago. No one is going to know the difference."

Let me tell you something, black people would have been furious and raised heck at the brazen insensitivity and whitewashing of history. White people should play white people and black people should play black people in historic biopics. It is racially insensitive to do otherwise. 

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‘Harriet’ Screenwriter Says Hollywood Exec Suggested Julia Roberts to Play Harriet Tubman in Biopic

Published Nov. 20, 2019 12:18AM ET - Screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard has said a Hollywood executive once suggested Julia Roberts to play the part of Harriet Tubman in a biopic. Howard described the origins of the recently released film, Harriet, in an interview with Focus Features, where he said the idea had been in development for 26 years.

“I wanted to turn Harriet Tubman’s life, which I’d studied in college, into an action-adventure movie. The climate in Hollywood, however, was very different back then. I was told how one studio head said in a meeting, ‘This script is fantastic. Let's get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman,’” Howard said. “When someone pointed out that Roberts couldn’t be Harriet, the executive responded, ‘It was so long ago. No one is going to know the difference.’” The biopic stars Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman, a woman who escaped from slavery and went on to help over 70 slaves escape using the Underground Railroad.

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