Cynthia Erivo on Going Past the "Legend" of Harriet Tubman to Personal in 'Harriet'

Cynthia Erivo attended the HFPA and Hollywood Reporter TIFF Party while showing her film 'Harriet' at TIFF 2019.

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00:00Cynthia Erivo nice to see you last time was on a Broadway stage great color purple revival

00:12congratulations on everything since then tell us a little bit about Harriet well this is the

00:19story of Harriet Tubman and I guess you get to see the human of her you know you know about the

00:25legend we know about the heroics we know about how much work she put into saving people's lives

00:31but I guess here you get to see where that starts from where that comes from how much of a woman she

00:38was how she loved how she lost and where that journey began as well as the journey itself yeah

00:45have you ever been to this festival before I have you have tell us about it was with widows that's

00:50course only what a year year ago so you know the drill I'm sure when you're in town they keep you

00:56very busy doing a lot of press and parties where if we could carve out two three hours for you to go

01:01see a movie yes other than yours that you most want to see which would that be now I have been told that

01:08I need to see waves yes or I'm going to see laundromat or Judy now I'm a huge fan of Judy Garland so so I

01:19think I might go and see Judy Garland it's eerie it's like you're seeing I'm like I'm excited for that

01:26I'm excited to see that last question to get up to this party you got to go over and get in an elevator

01:31but if the door closes behind you with only one other person in there who you know is in town yes who

01:36would you want that to be um we got a whole assortment we got now see I think Meryl Streep is in town I

01:43think she is and we got her we got her portrait we got everything yeah that would be a good one

01:47have you ever met never met her tonight's the night I hope she's coming I hope so thank you for

01:52stopping good to see you again see you again thank you