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The sisterhood between Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks began on Broadway. That is, the sisterhood of the order of The Color Purple. Both women starred on stage in the musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer-prize winning novel. Barrino spent 10 months in 2007 playing Celie, the poor country girl who survives an abusive step-father and husband and realizes her worth.
Brooks spent a year in the 2015 revival as the defiant Sofia, opposite Cynthia Erivo as Celie. Now filmmaker Blitz Bazawule places them in the exact same parts in his blockbuster musical movie version, starring Taraji P. Henson, Colman Domingo and Corey Hawkins, with Oprah Winfrey — who was Oscar-nominated for her Sofia in Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film version — producing. Barrino and Brooks tell Baz Bamigboye the story of how they came to their roles and what the journey has meant to them both.
DEADLINE: You’ve both dug so deep into your roles and there’s something about your performances that wholly anchors the film. How did you both do that?
DANIELLE BROOKS: For me, I truly called on ancestors, and I called the work that I feel I had to do, blood work. It’s really spirit work. It’s taking time and really listening to these Black women who want to come to you and talk to you from the past and share their stories. I really felt that way. I would have pictures of Black women that I felt like were Sofias in my dressing room, like Fannie Lou Hamer. And I would read stories about Black women who were home, like Eliza Woods during that time, and just really sit with them to see what they needed from me. And I feel like what they needed was for people to understand the humanity of who they are, that they aren’t angry Black women, the Sofias of
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