Oprah Winfrey stated The Colour Red helped her deal with the shock of being raped as a tender woman, as she offered a fresh movie in line with Alice Walker’s acclaimed magazine Thursday. The film — a musical — is the second one big-screen adaptation, later Steven Spielberg’s 1985 drama, and once more portrays the hardships and sexual abuse confronted via Dull girls in the United States South throughout the early twentieth century. Additionally learn: Priyanka Chopra, Jennifer Lopez, Cindy Crawford, Kim Kardashian celebrate Oprah Winfrey’s birthday. Watch
“From the very first time I read The Color Purple it was a blessing in my life — because until that time I didn’t know that there was language for what had happened to me,” Winfrey stated later a screening in Los Angeles.
“I had been raped and had a child at 14, who later died, and I did not have any language to explain what that was. “That keep was once the primary moment that there was once a tale about me.”
The Color Purple tells the coming-of-age story of Celie, a Black girl living in rural Georgia who is raped by her father and forced to give away two children. As it unfolds, Celie is forced into an abusive marriage, but comes to bond with and find strength from other women dealing with their own various traumas and prejudice.
Winfrey recalled how, in the 1980s, upon learning that Spielberg was adapting the film, she had “actually prayed on my knees each evening for the chance to be in that film.”
Spotted on her TV talk show by musician Quincy Jones, who was producing the film, Winfrey was cast as Sofia, a strong and feisty woman who encounters racism and tragedy. Winfrey was Oscar-nominated, and told Thursday’s audience that the movie “modified my age,” and to now be producing a remake meant life had “come so complete circle.”
‘Passing the baton’
After Spielberg’s film, The Color Purple was adapted into a stage musical which opened on Broadway in 2005. The new movie is inspired by that musical, and strikes a lighter, often joyous and uplifting tone. Spielberg, Winfrey and Jones all serve as producers, while The Color Purple Broadway actors Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks return as Celie and Sofia.
Winfrey said the character of Sofia became so “iconic for me” that she had insisted on being on set during the shooting of one particularly memorable scene. In the scene, Celie — jealous of Sofia’s independence — has advised her friend’s husband to beat her, prompting Sofia to confront her. “It felt like passing the baton,” she told the audience at the headquarters of the Oscar-awarding Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The movie is directed by Blitz Bazawule, a Ghanaian filmmaker best known for overseeing Beyonce’s 2020 musical film Black Is King. The cast also includes Colman Domingo, Taraji P. Henson and Louis Gossett Jr.
Music stars H.E.R., Jon Batiste and Halle Bailey — seen in this year’s The Little Mermaid — also feature. The Color Purple will be released by Warner Bros in theaters on Christmas Day.
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