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.

Christian actresses LeToya Luckett and Kierra Sheard-Kelly, alongside Ta'Rhonda Jones and Drew Sidora, play four sorority sisters who reunite at a Black Greek weekend celebration on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.