Cynthia Erivo's Harriet Tubman film costumes on display...

In the 2019 biographical film about abolitionist Harriet Tubman, Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo plays 'Araminta "Minty" Ross', a slave in 1840s Maryland newly married to freedman 'John Tubman'. She decides to escape her captivity at the Brodess farm and runs to freedom with the help of the Underground Railroad to Philadelphia, where she chooses the free name 'Harriet', after her mother. She decides to return to free her family in the South and then heroically helps hundreds of fellow slaves find freedom as a 'conductor' on the Underground Railroad.

Costumes worn by Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman

This quartet of screen-worn costumes were photographed on display at Downtown L.A.'s FIDM Museum & Galleries on February 4, 2020.

It's so cool to see them exhibited out from behind reflective display cases, but I've said it before and I'll say it again, I just wish the mannequins reflected the skin colour of the actress wearing the outfits, like with this Harriet movie costume on display at ArcLight Hollywood cinema.

Paul Tazewell was Costume Designer on the historical biopic directed by Kasi Lemmons and you can see more of his work with these costumes from Jesus Christ Superstar in Concert.

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Cynthia Erivo's Harriet Tubman movie costume on display...

In director Kasi Lemmons film, Cynthia Erivo plays the iconic abolitionist and Underground Railroad 'conductor', 'Harriet Tubman'. Inspired by true events, the movie follows her daring escape from slavery to America's North in 1849 and her courageous return to the South to help guide hundreds of other enslaved black people to freedom.

Harriet Tubman movie costume worn by Cynthia Erivo

This costume worn by Cynthia Erivo as Harriet, accompanied by this original daguerreotype photography by Rob J. Gibson, was captured on display at ArcLight Hollywood cinema on November 8, 2019.

Paul Tazewell was Costume Designer on this historical biographical movie (with help from Assistant Costume Designer Stacy Caballero) and you can also see more of his work in these costumes from Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert.

If you feel inspired by Harriet Tubman, then maybe you'll also like these film wardrobes from other historical movies, like these Hidden Figures movie costumes, these Loving film costumes and these Selma movie costumes.

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