The determined struggles of true-life heroes, whose tales look to resonate loudly this awards season, were at the heart of Focus Features’ Contenders NY presentation Saturday at the DGA Theater in …
) the task was to offer up the grueling human struggle of one of U.S. history’s most famous figures: abolitionist Harriet Tubman. But Lemons didn’t really see the embodiment of Tubman until meeting singer/actress
, whom she could truly picture playing the American hero who escaped slavery and led hundreds to freedom on the Underground Railroad.'Booksmart': How Olivia Wilde Made A Comedy For Today's Evolved Generation Of Teens - The Contenders NY “Having Cynthia is everything,” Lemmons told the appreciative DGA Theater crowd. “Harriet is very much a woman and almost a superhero and was so important to so many people and I thought, if I had a meeting with [Erivo], and don’t see it, I’d fix the script and move on.” But after their meeting in Manhattan’s Russian Tea Room, “the Harriet that had become so clear to me—there she was.
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