That is a huge part of my excitement, the fact that this generation will get such a beautifully-detailed introduction to a hero and icon that has largely lived in a few pages of our history books and in one-dimensional photographs.
AISHA HINDSStudy and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we’ve completed any course of study… and approach the work as a servant, not a star.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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Very early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation,
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She moved seamlessly through an array of spirited and soul-stirring characters, each one holding a mirror up to me and allowing me in many ways to see a reflection of myself on screen.
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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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You know, to be completely disgusted with injustice to the point that you will have to take some huge leaps of faith. And it may take one person leading many.
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Learning about her and the layers of her helps you to see that the same woman who holds a gun and an axe felt feelings for a man.
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It’s no mistake that Harriet Tubman is revisiting us, in different forms, right now, as we travel through a very contentious time in the world.
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The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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Learning about all these elements and aspects of her was mind-blowing and educational for me as a woman because I have to sometimes remind people that have known me for years.
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I think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.
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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
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[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring her legacy.
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When you understand the purpose [of life], then you can deal and journey through the obstacles, the rejections, the stops and starts, highs-and-lows with a different lens because you know that you’re moving in what you’re supposed to do.
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A space where the conversation surrounding the issues in our country is offering a seat at the table to all the voices to be heard, a murder mystery, and grassroots look at our own humanity as we move through the parts and pieces of the story.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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I became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.
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