You most likely do not forget that a movie adaptation of The Shade Purple — particularly, the smash Broadway musical that was based mostly on Alice Walker’s 1982 ebook — got here out final 12 months.
The star-studded forged included former American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino, who performed the story’s protagonist Celie Harris-Johnson.
Through the musical’s preliminary Broadway run, Cynthia Erivo performed Celie — from 2015 to 2017, particularly.
Cynthia’s efficiency was extremely acclaimed. She received a Tony in 2016, and he or she additionally received an Emmy and a Grammy for her work. It isn’t a stretch to say that The Shade Purple is actually the rationale why she’s near EGOT’ing.
So there was fairly a little bit of confusion when Cynthia wasn’t forged in The Shade Purple‘s movie adaptation — and judging from current feedback she made on a current episode of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, it ain’t getting any much less complicated any time quickly.
So, throughout the chat, Marc talked about that he attended a “family and friends” screening of The Shade Purple earlier than its launch. Cynthia, apparently, didn’t get the invite.
“Oh, wow, wow, wow. Oh, yeah, I didn’t get that invite,” she replied.
Marc duly identified that it “looks like there’s a bit rigidity” between her and the filmmakers, and Cynthia responded, “Properly, I don’t know why although.”
Marc then requested the million-dollar query — was she ever up for the position within the movie? Cynthia’s response was…attention-grabbing.
“Um, that’s a protracted, difficult dialog that I most likely shouldn’t even get into,” she replied. “Lord is aware of why. However, you already know.”
I actually do not! However one thing tells me that we’ll discover out extra about what occurred sooner or later, be it close to or far. We’ll see! Should you managed to see The Shade Purple on Broadway and have opinions on all of this, we would love to listen to from you within the feedback, too.