Julia Roberts was suggested to play Harriet Tubman by studio exec, says Harriet screenwriter

Entertainment Weekly ^ | November 19, 2019 | Rachel Yang

[Salamander]

Don’t be silly.

Everyone knows that every single house, everywhere, with a lawn jockey in the yard was part of the underground railroad.

/I read it on the internet

:)

[jmaroneps37]

Did this come from The Onion?

[Salamander]

I'll tell you something even weirder.

It's "common knowledge" locally that a "free black man" once owned a famous Revolutionary War/French & Indian war/Civil war very important fort nearby.

However, the only existing photo of him and his whole black family, are disturbingly pale for "black people".

Yet the legend lives on.

[shanover]

Most historical “facts” in U.S. history are utter B.S. and are only meant to revise/distort/fake a true event and make people feel good. The liberals are constantly doing this whitewash and if they can’t change history,they eliminate it.

[Our man in washington]

That would have been casting against type. I wouldn’t believe it. I just can’t see Ms. Roberts playing a Christian conservative gun-toting second-amendment supporting Republican war hero.

[adorno]

When they make the movie about Michelle Obama, maybe they can get Dwayne Johnson to play the part. Same body style, same size, same muscles, same looks.

[MrEdd]

Just find somebody who actually looks like Harriet Tubman?
Ain’t nobody got time for dat.

[M-cubed]

Maybe Joy Behar could put on black face again and play the part. <<—

her and Ralph Northam can both audition for the role...

[Political Junkie Too]

Maybe Colin Kaepernick can play Kunta Kinte in a Roots remake.

-PJ

[MuttTheHoople]

[yarddog]

Speaking of “Roots”, that book and mini-series was a total fraud. It was known to be a fraud and yet it was treated as if it was sacred. Alex Haley called, the greatest genealogist when he wasn’t even equal to amateurs.

Some of the characters were real but they were not kin to Haley and not who they were portrayed to be.

The media still treats it as sacred and most Americans don’t know the truth.

[Tucker39]

The Harriet Tubman story says she made 19 trips and rescued approximately 300 slaves. At the Tubman Museum in downtown Cambridge, MD they say around 90. I guess the true number is somewhere between. There is also a large new Tubman Center out in the country on land where it is believed she was a slave.

[a fool in paradise]

Should she decline the role if it was just to be presented as a radio drama or “book on tape”?

[a fool in paradise]

"Ahh hah!!!"

[a fool in paradise]

Coline is a kunt

[a fool in paradise]

He also plagiarized the text

[catbertz]

I’ll take “Things that never happened” for $500 Alex.

[trebb]

Did Julia put on some weight in all the wrong places and become a total frump?

[SkyDancer]

[SkyDancer]

Hey! Uncle Bernie!