- Dawson Casting: 32-year old Cynthia Erivo as the (initially) 24/25 year old Harriet (though this is justified as thanks to poor record keeping of slave births, slaves and former slaves' ages were often uncertain, and by her continuing to play Harriet as she aged).
- Fake American: Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) and Joe Alwyn (Gideon) are British.
- Referenced by...:
- Saturday Night Live: Season 45 included a dark joke about the movie Harriet being released to theaters...and being captured and returned to its owner!
- Bernadette Banner is very impressed with the attention to detail the historical costuming in the film, featuring it in a video titled 5 Historical Films That Got the Costumes RIGHT.
- Saved from Development Hell: It took more than two decades to get a studio to agree to produce the film.
- What Could Have Been: Twenty-something years ago, a studio executive thought of having Julia Roberts in the title role, claiming that people would be unaware that the real Tubman was African-American. More recently (and far more appropriately), Viola Davis was attached to the project in 2015 but dropped out due to other commitments.
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