(Julia Roberts, left, and Harriet Tubman. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP; Library of Congress)
Screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard has tried to make the story of Harriet Tubman for more than two decades.
Recently, Howard shared a story of how a studio executive had an idea who should play the iconic woman, a slave turned abolitionist who led hundreds of slaves to freedom throughout the Civil War — Julia Roberts, Entertainment Weekly and CNN reported.
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