Don't call 'Harriet' a 'slave movie': Kasi Lemmons and Cynthia Erivo made a 'freedom story'

last year), was handpicked by producers Debra Martin Chase and Daniela Taplin Lundberg to direct the picture.“When they told me about it, I realized that my heart was pounding and that I felt fear and excitement,” Lemmons said. “I felt honored, but I was definitely intimidated.”

“We’re just arriving at a point now where you can have a black female protagonist in a period piece,” Lemmons said. “I think that was a hard sell for people; they still hadn’t arrived there yet.” “I was awash in concern,” Lemmons said. “There’s a point at which you’re pushing people and then there’s a point where it’s like, ‘OK, don’t die. We have more to shoot and I need you.’”

Nailing Harriet’s singing voice presented another unique challenge. “I knew Harriet’s voice sounded different from Cynthia’s,” Lemmons said. “And she was like, ‘Yeah, she doesn’t sound like me.’ So that was an interesting conversation. Like, ‘Where is her voice?’”“It’s strange, but I think of a voice as a line, right down the middle,” Erivo said. “It doesn’t end anywhere.

“I wanted to bring the complexity,” she said. “So it’s not just people down South picking cotton. That was something different. This wasbut it was Maryland [as opposed to the deep South], and it was an interesting community of freed and enslaved African Americans living side by side and intermingling.

I wanted to make sure that my mind was ready for it because I knew that it was going to be an emotional rollercoaster. I wanted to be strong enough...“I wanted to do my own stunts, so I was working with my body to make sure that it was prepared,” she said. “And really lots of meditative work. I wanted to also make sure that my mind was ready for it because I knew that it was going to be an emotional roller coaster. I wanted to be strong enough and available to allow that to happen.

Whatever their intentions, it failed miserably. Really sad and a missed opportunity. It isn’t a slave movie or a freedom movie.

A strong black woman with the same name as me?! I love it 🥰

no they made a politically charged bait film who main character, if alive, would prolly be attacked for not being radical enough for the ppl evoking her

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