In response to Millie Bobby Brown's appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show where she stated that she would like to play Britney Spears in a biopic of her life, Spears complained “I’m not dead yet”. But do you need to be dead to have a biopic of your life? Some films such as The Runaways and Mommie Dearest would beg to differ but more classic icons like Frida Kahlo and Harriet Tubman, unfortunately, have passed, and can’t comment on their film portrayal.
Harriet Cynthia Erivo powerfully plays the role of abolitionist and Underground Railroad concutor Harriet Tubman in her incredible life story of escaping slavery and then bravely turning back to help others to freedom in the 2019 film Harriet. After fleeing to the north from a life of southern slavery, Tubman meets some incredible people who show her a new life and encourage her to stay where she is free and safe.
The Runaways The punk scene has a history of not being kind to women. Joan Larkin , a southern California teenager, changes her name to Joan Jett and teams up with a band manager, Kim Fowley, who helps her build her all-girl punk band. They find 15-year-old Cherie Currie to sing and be the face of the band, and with two other girls, Stella Maeve as Sandy West and Scout Taylor-Compton as Lita Ford, to create a four-piece group they become The Runaways.
Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly's 2016 non-fiction hit book Hidden Figures was the inspiration for this movie by the same name. In 1961, a group of three African-American women whose mathematic work at NASA put the U.S. ahead of Russia in what was referred to as the Space Race with the goal of putting a man in space. Starring Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaughn, Janelle Monae as Mary Jackson, and Taraji P. Henson as Katherine G.