Oprah explains why Beyoncé wasn’t cast in the The Color Purple musical
by Asyia Iftikhar for Pink News –
photo: Oprah Winfrey starred in the original 1985 film adaptation of The Color Purple. (Kevin Mazur/Getty)
Oprah Winfrey has explained why she didn’t cast music mega-stars Beyoncé and Rihanna in the musical adaptation of The Color Purple.
Oprah starred as Sofia in the 1985 Steven Spielberg adaptation of Alice Walker’s award-winning novel The Color Purple. Almost forty years on, the iconic TV personality stepped up as producer for the onscreen adaptation of the Tony-winning musical version of The Color Purple.
The groundbreaking plot (which takes place over several decades) follows a southern African-American woman named Celie (Fantasia Barrino), who is traumatically torn apart from her sister Nettie and forced to marry an abusive man known as Mister (Rustin star Colman Domingo).
In adulthood, Celie meets her step-son’s outspoken wife Sofia (Danielle Brooks) and Mister’s mistress, showgirl Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), with whom she grows deep and meaningful bonds while never giving up hope that one day she will be reunited with her sister Nettie.
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