I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.
AISHA HINDSSo that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO.
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But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I’d love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.
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The masterful work of the DP [Director of Photography] Kevin McKnight and his crew, and the layers and depths each actor goes to to ensure we the audience feel a human connection to these characters led me to sign my name on the dotted line.
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When that drone shot carried us through the main house with Rosalie, played so unflinchingly-brilliantly by Jurnee Smollett Bell, I signed on for the ride.
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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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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.
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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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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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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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It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].
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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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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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I went on to be inspired by many other artists and forms of art, and was soon directed to a place that would help harness my experiences and develop my voice within the craft, LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City.
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She was inspired by being sick and tired of the injustice she was experiencing and she knew she had a right to liberty or death.
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