I'm sorry to say Jennifer did not do justice to this role. Her performance was too often stiff and unassured, there was no magic and true awe unfortunately. And that is weird because she was more than monumental as Effie, a showstopping role like Shug is. Maybe it's the theater, it's different and there's no second chances.
Y’all know what happened.. someone called oprah and said John really is insisting on Keeping Cynthia as Celie. What do you think of Jennifer playing Shug Avery instead? Oprah then gives the ok. Jennifer confusingly agrees but only to a 9 month contract. My belief has always been that Jennifer was intended to play the Broadway version of Celie but the Director felt very strongly about not putting a celebrity to play Celie. I still stand by and say Jennifer was horribly miscast as Shug because they wanted her celebrity but didn’t wanna vacate the London production to get it.
Oh my God I love this film the coloured purple it’s the best film ever I would also like to see the play but I live in the UK Oprah Winfrey as Sofia no wonder she won a Oscar for her character absolutely amazing and don’t forget the other two main characters Whoopi Goldberg as Celia and Danny Glover what an amazing film I can’t remember watching this the first time around and it made me cry I watched it a couple of weeks ago and it still makes me cry I would recommend this film to anybody it is fucking brilliant
Oprah did not get an Oscar. All 12 nominations for The Color Purple were shafted and none received an Oscar, though they all deserved it. Cynthia as Celie is absolutely amazing. 💯
CYN & JEN ARE SO BEAUTIFUL TOGETHER😍😍😍😍😍👐🏿👐🏿👐🏿👐🏿
I'm sorry to say Jennifer did not do justice to this role. Her performance was too often stiff and unassured, there was no magic and true awe unfortunately. And that is weird because she was more than monumental as Effie, a showstopping role like Shug is. Maybe it's the theater, it's different and there's no second chances.
"Led by Jennifer Hudson"
not quite...
Exactly.
I was LITERALLY just going to post this. No. Not led by Jennifer Hudson.
Hahaaaa 😂
Y’all know what happened.. someone called oprah and said John really is insisting on Keeping Cynthia as Celie. What do you think of Jennifer playing Shug Avery instead? Oprah then gives the ok. Jennifer confusingly agrees but only to a 9 month contract. My belief has always been that Jennifer was intended to play the Broadway version of Celie but the Director felt very strongly about not putting a celebrity to play Celie. I still stand by and say Jennifer was horribly miscast as Shug because they wanted her celebrity but didn’t wanna vacate the London production to get it.
Sean Yates I agree!
Oh my God I love this film the coloured purple it’s the best film ever I would also like to see the play but I live in the UK Oprah Winfrey as Sofia no wonder she won a Oscar for her character absolutely amazing and don’t forget the other two main characters Whoopi Goldberg as Celia and Danny Glover what an amazing film I can’t remember watching this the first time around and it made me cry I watched it a couple of weeks ago and it still makes me cry I would recommend this film to anybody it is fucking brilliant
Oprah did not get an Oscar. All 12 nominations for The Color Purple were shafted and none received an Oscar, though they all deserved it. Cynthia as Celie is absolutely amazing. 💯
@@rubyblue444 Should of it’s a brilliant film and considering it was her first major acting role she should’ve got an Oscar
Jennifer Hudson would not agree with that statement "led by"!
Clearly that reporter has no idea what she's talking about
Yeah!
Is Jennifer Hudson playing Sofia the character Oprah played in the movie.
no
Snug Avery!