I thought I’d figured out Hollywood’s prevailing attitude toward firearms. Oscar winner John Legend seemed to sum it up at an appearance in Dayton this week when he said: “The NRA doesn’t represent America,” and “we’re tired of bigotry and hate turning lethal because of easy access to guns.”
Then I saw the trailer for Kasi Lemmons’s Harriet (watch it here) about the fiery anti-slavery resister Harriet Tubman. And I had to start thinking all over again.
Harriet, with Cynthia Erivo in the title role, is set for release by Focus Features on November 1, though it already will be causing a stir at the Toronto Film Festival in early September. Its trailer, currently attached to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, promises an impassioned telling of Tubman’s escape from slavery, her work to liberate others via the Underground Railroad and her...
Then I saw the trailer for Kasi Lemmons’s Harriet (watch it here) about the fiery anti-slavery resister Harriet Tubman. And I had to start thinking all over again.
Harriet, with Cynthia Erivo in the title role, is set for release by Focus Features on November 1, though it already will be causing a stir at the Toronto Film Festival in early September. Its trailer, currently attached to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, promises an impassioned telling of Tubman’s escape from slavery, her work to liberate others via the Underground Railroad and her...
- 8/15/2019
- by Michael Cieply
- Deadline Film + TV
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