The trailer features visually bold motifs as it takes audiences inside Celie’s headspace with “American Idol” winner Fantasia reprising her Broadway role.
In one scene, Shug Avery shows Celie how to apply lipstick. Winfrey revealed the line was improvised and reflected, “When she says, ‘Oh, living God.’ That was an ad-libbed line that comes out of that moment when you’re with your sister and you’re looking at her in lipstick for the first time and you’re happy for her.”
With the film’s Christmas day release, Winfrey and Bazawule hope the film’s message will bring healing. Winfrey recalled a conversation she had recently had with Fantasia, saying “The movie changed her because it allowed her to forgive. She said, ‘People coming to this movie will be healed because I was healed.’”
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