The Color Purple Ep. 1 – Fantasia

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In the first episode of this three-part series, Oprah welcomes Grammy award-winning singer, Fantasia, to talk about her feature film debut as 'Celie' in the reimagination of the classic film, The Color Purple. In this emotional conversation, Fantasia shares the personal inspiration behind her portrayal and how her character empowered her to heal her own past trauma. Oprah and Fantasia celebrate the sisterhood of the women at the heart of the story and the new dimension to Shug and Celie's relationship. Fantasia explains how she learned the power of forgiveness through her role and why she believes women, men and families will be healed by watching The Color Purple. This is a Harpo Production in association with Warner Bros. Pictures. Buy your tickets on Fandango now! https://www.fandango.com/canvas/thecolorpurple

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey.
0:02.0	Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast.
0:06.0	I believe that one of the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time,
0:12.0	taking time to be more fully present.
0:15.8	Your journey to become more inspired
0:18.3	and connected to the deeper world around us
0:21.6	starts right now.
0:24.9	Miss Fantasia Vareno.
0:27.2	Brava, Brava, Brava, Brava, to you.
0:31.5	I am so proud of you. And I know you saw the film for the first time.
0:40.3	First time it's hard to take it all in.
0:43.0	How does it feel?
0:45.0	I was numb.
0:47.0	I thought I was going to go in and critique myself the whole time.
0:50.0	When we do albums, we listen to the album album we go in and we're like
0:54.4	change this should have did that do a video but I actually forgot that it was me I
1:00.7	forgot that that was me from young Seeley to see me.
1:05.0	Absolutely amazing.
1:10.0	So I think it's now your audition what almost 20 years ago for American Idol.
1:15.2	This is a full circle moment that you are now starring in the color purple, the starring role, number one on the call sheet. What does that mean?
1:28.0	For me, after all that I had to go through, It means God didn't forget about me.
1:35.0	Because there were times where I felt that way.
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