Janell Hobson spoke with Filmmaker kasi_lemmons about harrietfilm, which is in theaters today:
I got called in for what I thought was a general meeting with the producers about rewriting the script that they had for the Harriet Tubman movie. I definitely was interested, but I said, “Well, you know, of course it would be much more interesting if I was writing and directing,” and that’s when it really hit me that, Oh, I was in a meeting to talk about just that! I rewrote the script they had by Gregory Allen.
What does it mean to embody someone like Harriet Tubman, who sometimes exists in our imaginations as this larger-than-life almost action superhero? How do you capture her humanity? Thinking of spiritual literacy brings me back to your earlier comment about Harriet Tubman being a mystic. It also recalls for me your first filmand the way you also engage in a mystical landscape with that film and with mystical characters.
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