Warning: This story contains spoilers from the 2023 musical remake of The Shade Purple.
With The Shade Purple being a musical remake of the 1985 movie, there are definitely many scenes that hearken again to the unique. However in a single scene, there’s a face that brings all of it full circle.
Early on within the movie, Whoopi Goldberg, Oscar-nominated for her function as Celie within the authentic, is solid as a midwife who helps younger Celie, performed by Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, give start to her second little one. The function is temporary however has delighted audiences in previews.
Oprah Winfrey, who starred alongside Goldberg within the authentic and is a producer on the brand new movie, instructed The Hollywood Reporter in a latest interview that Goldberg was solid partly for fan response.
“[We] simply thought it was an exquisite Easter egg for audiences who’ve appreciated the movie over time, for the diehards,” she instructed THR. “And we additionally thought it was a beautiful homage to Whoopi.”
However whereas Winfrey, additionally Oscar-nominated for her function as Sofia, was on set for the film, she declined to make an look within the movie and determined that Goldberg needs to be the one member of the unique solid to make it within the new model.
“Really, I considered it, it will’ve been good within the church scene, however I believed it will even be distracting when Sofia is getting married that if the previous authentic Sofia was simply one of many folks within the church, after which they had been taking pictures that in the midst of Georgia when COVID was [spreading] like, ‘OK, properly I ain’t sitting in that church all day anyway,’” she stated with fun. “And in addition I simply assume it’s extra particular that it’s simply Whoopi.”
The Shade 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.
