Cynthia Erivo

It's like a small little thing in the textbook that takes up maybe one page if we're lucky.

If we're lucky.

But when you do further excavation of who they are, when you learn more, you realize just how full a life she led.

I was lucky because when I was playing her, an image had just been unsurfaced of her as a 20-something-year-old.

And it was totally different to the picture that we... Right, that was new.

That was new.

Because we had only had her as an older woman.

As an older woman.

And so that sort of struck questions for me.

I was lucky because my director, Casey Lemons, and the writer, Greg, had sort of helped guide me through the...

major moments in her life that we never have spoken about.

And they're there.

It's there.

Yes, we know that Harriet Tubman was a hero and saved many people and freed many slaves, including herself.

What we didn't know is that when she was doing it, she was 27.

She was a young woman.

She was also brokenhearted.

She had left her love behind.

She

We don't know that.