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Julia Roberts was suggested to play Harriet Tubman by studio exec, says Harriet screenwriter
Entertainment Weekly ^
| November 19, 2019
| Rachel Yang
Posted on 11/20/2019 5:36:35 PM PST by EdnaMode
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So it would have been like Hamilton?
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posted on
11/20/2019 5:36:35 PM PST
by
EdnaMode
To: EdnaMode
Maybe Joy Behar could put on black face again and play the part.
To: EdnaMode
Emily Blunt would have been a much better pick.
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posted on
11/20/2019 5:38:41 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: EdnaMode
Are the liver lips a requirement?
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posted on
11/20/2019 5:38:53 PM PST
by
bankwalker
(Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
To: EdnaMode
Tom Hanks must’ve turned it down. It wouldve been an Oscar worthy performance.
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posted on
11/20/2019 5:39:15 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
To: EdnaMode
Yeah why NOT? After all it wasn’t her COLOR that was important. It was what she did and what she stood for. Isn’t THAT the argument with replacing every white character with a non-white character?
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posted on
11/20/2019 5:40:32 PM PST
by
DouglasKC
To: EdnaMode
>>”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.’”
Same excuse they wouldn’t want to depict Harriet as a Republican.
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posted on
11/20/2019 5:42:01 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
To: EdnaMode
My wife dragged me to it. It was really GREAT, however.
To: EdnaMode
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posted on
11/20/2019 5:42:33 PM PST
by
dontreadthis
(A TIMELINE OF TREASON on Profile Page)
To: EdnaMode
I saw a program on one of the History type channels, I think yesterday.
I can’t believe they were allowed to say it but there is almost no evidence that the Underground Railroad existed. Everything comes from a book and it was not very accurate.
They said she did probably help 19 slaves escape, all of them kin to her.
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posted on
11/20/2019 5:42:45 PM PST
by
yarddog
( For I am persuaded.)
To: EdnaMode
Since blacks have played whites and whites have played blacks I guess why not. Will she be in black face?
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posted on
11/20/2019 5:42:56 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: DouglasKC
Except that the people she so-called saved were relatives.
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posted on
11/20/2019 5:43:59 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: EdnaMode
Or a whiter Harriet Tubman but on cocaine.
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posted on
11/20/2019 5:44:41 PM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing about liberals.)
To: EdnaMode
I think it’s very progressive for a white woman to play a black woman. It will help white pipples to understand black pipples better if they can see themselves represented in the black experience.
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posted on
11/20/2019 5:45:03 PM PST
by
Skywise
To: SkyDancer
A white actress? In
blackface??? Is this gonna be minstrel show?
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posted on
11/20/2019 5:47:48 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(..........and Epstein didn't kill himself. Yeah, I went there.)
To: EdnaMode
Julia would have to wear blackface.
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posted on
11/20/2019 5:48:06 PM PST
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: EdnaMode
That’ll go over great in the black community.
To: EdnaMode
Should have been Tom Hanks.
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posted on
11/20/2019 5:56:36 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
To: EdnaMode
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:08:43 PM PST
by
tellw
(ed)
To: EdnaMode
Hollywood approved blackface.
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:09:15 PM PST
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