Fantasia Barrino.
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Oprah Winfrey has announced that Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks are reprising their roles as Celie and Sofia in The Color Purple film. The casting was revealed Thursday night during the ABC News special Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising. “I am here representing all things purple to tell you that you are our Sofia,” Winfrey told Brooks during the special. “I’m so happy to pass whatever baton from 35 — almost 40 — years ago to you. And I know you’re gonna kill it.” Both Barrino and Brooks played their respective roles in the stage musical during separate runs. Barrino performed in a 2007 production while Brooks was in the 2015 revival, winning a Tony for her performance. Winfrey also told Vanity Fair that Colman Domingo will play the role of Mister, Celie’s abusive husband, and Halle Bailey will be playing Celie’s sister, Nellie.
After the actor starred as Miss Hannigan in NBC’s Annie Live! last December, Taraji P. Henson is now set to join the upcoming Color Purple movie musical as jazz singer Shug Avery, Variety reports. Now this, of course, isn’t the first adaptation of The Color Purple — it’s a film adaptation of the 2005 Broadway musical, which itself was adapted from the 1982 Alice Walker novel and 1985 movie. The Lord works in mysterious ways, indeed! Henson joins a cast including H.E.R. as Squeak and Corey Hawkins as Harpo.
The new movie has been brewing for years, with Steven Spielberg (who directed the 1985 take), Quincy Jones (who produced it), and Oprah Winfrey (who was nominated for an Oscar as Sofia) signing on as producers back in 2018. Since then, Blitz Bazawule, who directed Beyoncé’s visual album Black Is King, joined as director, while The Chi’s Marcus Gardley is writing. The movie is currently set to be released on December 20, 2023.
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Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks Join The Color Purple
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