Warning: This story contains spoilers from the 2023 musical remake of The Color Purple.
With The Color Purple being a musical remake of the 1985 movie, there are definitely many scenes that hearken again to the unique. But in one scene, there’s a face that brings all of it full circle.
Early on in the movie, Whoopi Goldberg, Oscar-nominated for her position as Celie in the unique, is solid as a midwife who helps younger Celie, performed by Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, give delivery to her second youngster. The position is temporary however has delighted audiences in previews.
Oprah Winfrey, who starred alongside Goldberg in the unique and is a producer on the brand new movie, advised The Hollywood Reporter in a current interview that Goldberg was solid in half for fan response.
“[We] just thought it was a wonderful Easter egg for audiences who have appreciated the film over the years, for the diehards,” she advised THR. “And we also thought it was a lovely homage to Whoopi.”
But whereas Winfrey, additionally Oscar-nominated for her position as Sofia, was on set for the film, she declined to make an look in the movie and determined that Goldberg ought to be the one member of the unique solid to make it in the brand new model.
“Actually, I thought about it, it would’ve been good in the church scene, but I thought it would also be distracting when Sofia is getting married that if the old original Sofia was just one of the people in the church, and then they were shooting that in the middle of Georgia when COVID was [spreading] like, ‘OK, well I ain’t sitting in that church all day anyway,’” she stated with amusing. “And also I just think it’s more special that it’s just Whoopi.”
The Color Purple remake stars Fantasia Barrino because the grownup Celie, Danielle Brooks as Sofia, Taraji P. Henson as Shug Avery and Colman Domingo as Mister. It was launched in theaters on Christmas Day.
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