Super Soul Special: Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling: Brave New Worlds

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Oprah sits down with Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling, her co-stars from the film "A Wrinkle in Time," for a lively conversation about ambition, guardian angels, learning to say no, and the pressures women face in today's culture. Reese and Mindy discuss the hardest decisions they had to make in order to fulfill their destinies. Oprah says, "I'm so excited to have a conversation with such beautiful, innovative, powerful women." Directed by pioneer filmmaker Ava DuVernay, "A Wrinkle in Time" is adapted from Madeleine L'Engle's classic 1962 novel of the same name. The movie is about a young girl, Meg Murry, played by newcomer Storm Reid, who hops through time to rescue her father from an evil, universe-threatening force. Ava describes the story as a tapestry of "spirituality and self-empowerment." Disney's "A Wrinkle in Time" has its premiere in movie theaters on March 9, 2018.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of the most
0:07.8	valuable gifts you can give yourself is time. Taking time to be more fully present. Your journey
0:16.5	to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right now.
0:24.1	So I'm so excited that today I'm doing a special conversation with two beautiful, innovative, powerful women
0:34.5	who I had the privilege of co-starring with in a wrinkle in time. Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kalen. Hi, Oprah. Thank you for having us. We're here. Oh, can you believe it? We get to sit and talk. No, it's so excited. It's our favorite thing to do. It's our favorite thing to do. And not in harnesses and wigs. Not in harnesses in wigs. This is going to be fun because I wish we had been recording, can you imagine if we were recording a podcast in our trailer all of those mornings? No, that would be very bad for all of us. During the many hours we spent in the makeup trailer. Particularly for me. No, no, no, a lot of wisdom in that trailer. I think so too.
1:11.6	Why do you think, though, that the spirit and energy of what's now coming to the big screen
1:20.6	in a wrinkle in time, the essence of that book, why do you think that has captured imaginations of children and now adults for decades?
1:31.3	Why?
1:32.3	It's absolutely, well, I mean, it's such a book about what is possible and hope and positivity
1:38.3	and about good versus evil.
1:40.3	And I think there have been many moments in time that it would be completely appropriate, but it seems so apropos right now to be talking about what do we cultivate in each other and what, how do we find our best selves and become warriors for the good in the world.
1:56.9	Yeah.
1:57.6	I think the fact that the lead isn't very unconventional lead, a fatherless girl who's
2:03.6	in search for her father, I think at the time the book came out, that was a very unusual
2:08.1	choice for a lead of a children's book, or a book for young adults.
2:11.7	And I think you can see yourself in that character.
2:13.9	It's nice.
2:14.9	What did it mean to you all to be a part of this? Did it not feel,
2:19.8	I will tell you, did it, for me it felt sort of like we were part of a trailblazing,
2:24.6	pioneering kind of adventure. The fact that Ava was at the center of directing the first
2:33.9	$100 billion film by an African-American woman.
2:36.5	Did we not feel like we're trailblazers?
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