'I am ready to pass the purple baton on to the incredible (Danielle Brooks) who will bring her version to a new generation,' Winfrey said in a post.
accounts on Friday, Brooks is surprised when Winfrey appears in the video conference instead of the film’s director.
“I’m so happy to pass whatever baton from 35 — almost 40 — years ago to you and I know you’re gonna kill it,” Winfrey says with a smile, pulling up Brooks’ audition video on a tablet.In Brooks' caption on the video Friday, she echoed those sentiments.for trusting me with playing, once again, this powerhouse of a woman," Brooks wrote."She put her foot in that role and helped to change so many lives. I pray to do the same.
that while there have been countless actors in various iterations of the show over the past 40 years, she believes “we’ve landed on the best people in this particular moment.” “I don’t know anybody who’s ever been associated with it whose life didn’t get enhanced,” she explained. “Everything comes from the original words of Alice Walker, which were grounded in love, really. Love of this community. Love of these people. Love of those characters. And that just gets passed on and passed on and passed on. I can’t wait to see this next evolvement, which is not attached to having done it the way we’ve always done it.