by Murtada Elfadl
Cynthia Erivo who made waves this week at Tiff as one quarter of Widows has announced her next project. She will play iconic freedom fighter Harriet Tubman in Harriet. The film will follow Tubman on her escape from slavery and subsequent missions to free many slaves through the Underground Railroad in pre-Civil War America. More exciting is that Harriet will be directed by Kasi Lemmons of Eve’s Bayou (1997), a film we adore. This will be Lemmons' first film since Black Nativity (2013), in the past few years she’s been directing episodes of TV shows like Luke Cage and Shots Fired.
Joining Erivo in the cast are Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, Clarke Peters (Detective Freamon in The Wire) and surprisingly country music singer Jennifer Nettles.
Cynthia Erivo who made waves this week at Tiff as one quarter of Widows has announced her next project. She will play iconic freedom fighter Harriet Tubman in Harriet. The film will follow Tubman on her escape from slavery and subsequent missions to free many slaves through the Underground Railroad in pre-Civil War America. More exciting is that Harriet will be directed by Kasi Lemmons of Eve’s Bayou (1997), a film we adore. This will be Lemmons' first film since Black Nativity (2013), in the past few years she’s been directing episodes of TV shows like Luke Cage and Shots Fired.
Joining Erivo in the cast are Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, Clarke Peters (Detective Freamon in The Wire) and surprisingly country music singer Jennifer Nettles.
- 9/14/2018
- by Murtada Elfadl
- FilmExperience
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