Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
AISHA HINDSRemakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
AISHA HINDSThat 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 HINDS[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.
AISHA HINDSHarriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
AISHA HINDSOne of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO.
AISHA HINDSVery early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation,
AISHA HINDSI did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
AISHA HINDSLearning 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.
AISHA HINDSIt was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].
AISHA HINDSShe was inspired by being sick and tired of the injustice she was experiencing and she knew she had a right to liberty or death.
AISHA HINDSIt’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.
AISHA HINDSUnderstanding that what it is that you’re doing isn’t limited to the roles and the rejection, it’s bigger than that, it’s about your purpose in life.
AISHA HINDSI had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
AISHA HINDSThe dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
AISHA HINDSRosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn’t just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.
AISHA HINDSThe 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.
AISHA HINDS