Not that anyone should be surprised by Hollywood’s penchant for questionable casting decisions, but this one seems genuinely insane: a studio executive once suggested Julia Roberts (THE Julia Roberts) could play Harriet Tubman (THE Harriet Tubman), despite a, uh, pretty significant difference between the two women. Not that that’s stopped anyone before!
, noting that the casting suggestion was made about 25 years ago. “The climate in Hollywood, however, was very different back then,” he said in the Q&A. “I was told how one studio head said in a meeting, ‘This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.’”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.
I do not doubt that executives are, in fact, this stupid , and that this very incident happened, and that no lessons were learned from it. Hollywood has a long and terrible history ofpeople of color, fictional or otherwise, and though I assume, perhaps naively, that a Julia Roberts Harriet Tubman biopic would have never actually made it to the big screen, the fact that even one person suggested it paints a pretty bleak picture.
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