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Janelle Monáe, Julianne Moore Lead Feminists in 1st The Glorias Trailer

Janelle Monáe, Julianne Moore Lead Feminists in 1st The Glorias Trailer

The Glorias

The film from Frida director Julie Taymor is based on Gloria Steinem's memoir My Life on the Road. 

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It's the year of The Glorias with the drop of the first trailer for director Julie Taymor's (Frida, The Lion King on Broadway) film based on Gloria Steinem's memoir My Life on the Road. The film features several of the real-life women portrayed in the Emmy-nominated Hulu series Mrs. America, which starred Cate Blanchett as women's liberation foe Phyllis Schlafly and Rose Byrne as Steinem, but the big-screen story follows Steinem as a child (played by Ryan Kiera Armstrong and Lulu Wilson) through to Alicia Vikander's Steinem from her early days with Ms. Magazine throughout the women's movement and onward. Julianne Moore dons the signature tinted aviators as the older Steinem.

The trailer depicts Steinem working aside Janelle Monae's Dorothy Pitman Hughes. And Latinx and indigenous heroes including Dolores Huerta (Monica Sanchez) and Wilma Mankiller (Kimberly Guerrero), who did not get play in Mrs. America, feature prominently in The Glorias. Meanwhile, Lorraine Toussaint plays activist Flo Kennedy and Bette Midler is politician Bella Abzug.

Taymor and Sarah Ruhl wrote the screenplay for The Glorias, which will drop on digital platforms and Amazon Prime Video on September 30, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Tracy E. Gilchrist

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP of Editorial and Special Projects at equalpride. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP of Editorial and Special Projects at equalpride. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.