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    We escaped Julia Roberts playing Harriet Tubman – but whitewashing lives on | Yomi Adegoke

    Behind closed doors, roles meant for ethnic minority actors are being rewritten as white
    by Yomi Adegoke Nov 20, 2019 2 minutes
    Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman, the role it was once suggested Julia Roberts could play. Photograph: Glen Wilson/AP

    It is a headline that reads as if it were ripped from a Saturday Night Live skit: Julia Roberts was once the favourite to play the legendary African American 19th-century abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The revelation came from Gregory Allen Howard, the screenwriter and producer of the recently released.

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