A Hollywood executive once suggested trying to get Julia Roberts to portray Harriet Tubman in the leading abolitionist's biopic, the screenwriter of the new film 'Harriet' says.
Howard said the one other black person in the meeting said that would be impossible, as Julia Roberts is white.It took 25 more years for Howard to get “Harriet," which he also helped produce, to theaters. The film was released in the United States in November, and stars Cynthia Erivo, who is black, as Tubman, in a performance that has garnered Oscar buzz.
Howard, who did not immediately return a request to comment, said the climate has changed in Hollywood since he went to that meeting in the '90s.
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