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Exciting News: Fantasia Taylor and Danielle Brooks set to star in ‘The Color Purple’ musical movie
Fantasia Taylor will star as Celie, and Danielle Brooks will play Sofia, with both reprising their respective Broadway roles. The exciting news was revealed Thursday during ABC’s Soul of a Nation: Screen Queens Rising special.
FILM BUZZ: Taraji P. Henson lands role as Shug Avery in Blitz Bazawule’s ‘The Color Purple’
The Golden Globe winner is set to star as Shug Avery in Blitz Bazawule’s “The Color Purple,” a forthcoming Warner Bros. film adapted from the Tony-winning Broadway musical—an adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.