Fantasia Celebrates Being Cast As Celie In Upcoming ‘The Color Purple’ Film

Fantasia was leaping for pleasure on Thursday evening when she acquired the decision of a lifetime! Ms. Barrino shall be becoming a member of the solid of the upcoming ‘The Colour Purple’ remake as ‘Celie’. She expressed her gratitude in an Instagram publish.

“As I sit tonight and replicate on the journey my life has taken I imagine I now perceive what Redemption really appears like,” she wrote. “The final time I stepped into the character, the similarities between what I portrayed on stage and what I skilled in my very own actuality had been too shut for consolation.”

Fantasia expressed how she has modified over time and the way excited she is to use that progress to the function.

“I’ve realized since then that my ache was solely an introduction to a higher function of which means and project. I hope that each little black lady who’s combating to be heard and acknowledged additionally guarantees to by no means hand over despite the prices.”

Fantasia beforehand performed Celie in 2007 through the Broadway remake depiction of the movie and beforehand described how taxing the function was.

“For those who actually put your self in her footwear, that may be very tiring,” she informed Playbill.com. “It could possibly take lots of power out of you. I do know once I acquired off the stage at evening from exhibits, I’m exhausted. I run to my room, and I fall on the sofa and I’ve to take at the very least about ten minutes to wind down and to get my ideas collectively and are available out of the a part of Celie.”

As we beforehand reported, Taraji P. Henson can even be becoming a member of the solid alongside Corey Hawkins and H.E.R.

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