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To freedom!!!!!

[Buy The Stars✨]

I hate slave movies As everyone else but a movie about Harriet is long over due. 

[M-Rocka]

I can't wait to see this, you already know she'll be nominated for an Oscar and probably win because she plays a slave escaping to freedom.

[jtwoeleven]

Why do y'all hate slave movies? I think they serve an important purpose, but that depends a lot on who's making it, and how it's handled.

There's a lot of historical misinformation floating around, especially about American slavery. There are too many voices out there who try to minimize its impact, or flat out lie about historical events, like the civil war for example.

[GLOCK]

Yeah I like slave movies 

[jtwoeleven]

Also...everyone doesn't seem so thrilled with her casting...she's a bit problematic apparently...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.essence.com/v/s/www.essence.com/amp/entertainment/cynthia-erivo-black-british-actress-harriet-tubman-movie/%3famp_js_v=0.1&usqp=mq331AQCKAE%253D#ampf=

[FlowerBomb]

Also...everyone doesn't seem so thrilled with her casting...she's a bit problematic apparently...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.essence.com/v/s/www.essence.com/amp/entertainment/cynthia-erivo-black-british-actress-harriet-tubman-movie/%3famp_js_v=0.1&usqp=mq331AQCKAE%253D#ampf=

I don't see the issue with what she said?
Unless I've missed something

['ology]

Finally !!! It's crazy the greatest person in the United States diaspora is just getting a movie chronicling her life. It looks amazing though I love seeing them with those guns shoot them yts down!

[jtwoeleven]

Also...everyone doesn't seem so thrilled with her casting...she's a bit problematic apparently...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.essence.com/v/s/www.essence.com/amp/entertainment/cynthia-erivo-black-british-actress-harriet-tubman-movie/%3famp_js_v=0.1&usqp=mq331AQCKAE%253D#ampf=

I don't see the issue with what she said?
Unless I've missed something

From the looks of it, Cynthia doesn't seem to view African Americans (native blacks) as a unique, specific group of black people. When some pushed back on her casting, she side stepped the issue and kinda veered off into African Americans being pushed into this "flat blackness". Yet she has no problem identifying herself specifically with her African or British identity.

[GLOCK]

Also...everyone doesn't seem so thrilled with her casting...she's a bit problematic apparently...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.essence.com/v/s/www.essence.com/amp/entertainment/cynthia-erivo-black-british-actress-harriet-tubman-movie/%3famp_js_v=0.1&usqp=mq331AQCKAE%253D#ampf=

I don't see the issue with what she said?
Unless I've missed something

!
She literally said she was black woman

So what's the issue? 

[FlowerBomb]

Also...everyone doesn't seem so thrilled with her casting...she's a bit problematic apparently...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.essence.com/v/s/www.essence.com/amp/entertainment/cynthia-erivo-black-british-actress-harriet-tubman-movie/%3famp_js_v=0.1&usqp=mq331AQCKAE%253D#ampf=

I don't see the issue with what she said?
Unless I've missed something

From the looks of it, Cynthia doesn't seem to view African Americans (native blacks) as a unique, specific group of black people. When some pushed back on her casting, she side stepped the issue and kinda veered off into African Americans being pushed into this "flat blackness". Yet she has no problem identifying herself specifically with her African or British identity.

I think people are reading too much into it, I think she's saying no one would no she wasn't AA unless she opened her mouth and that this role wasn't handed to her and she had to work hard for it.
Besides if we're going to play that game we're gonna have to do a DNA test on every black actor before they play a damn biopic

[Cowgirl]

This looks good and they didn't cast an ugly Harriet!

[FlowerBomb]

Samuel started that mess,
Entitled self

[Cowgirl]

British actors need to focus on portraying roles of British people. Flat out.

[FlowerBomb]

and they do