It took 25 years before Hollywood was ready for Harriet Tubman
Picture 1994: “This is a great script. 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. The president replied, “That was so long ago. No one will know that.”Producers John Watson and Pen Densham, partners in Trilogy Entertainment, called me in to discuss commissioning a script about Harriet Tubman.
I did another draft and they turned it in to the studio. Needless to say, the studio would not be going forward with “Freedom Fire.” John called to tell me that the script was “dead” because Trilogy was exclusive to the studio.? I told him I want to get it made. He said: “You’re the producer now; shop it and try to get it made.”down the track.
to collect its huge box office, changed the date on the cover page of “Freedom Fire” again, then went out to find a producing partner who wouldn’t bail on me after a few passes. I found her, producer Debra Martin Chase, in 2015. And most importantly, my WME agent, Danny Greenberg, said the agency would back us.
We partnered up and started fighting, joined later by producer Daniela Taplin Lundberg and later still adding writer-director Kasi Lemmons. We trekked down the indie road until Focus Features got involved last year. Now the door was open.
As someone who has been in this business for decades, I am enjoying the warmth of the Hollywood climate change, and the diverse stories that are bathing in that sunlight, happy that Harriet’s
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