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Podcast: The Parting Shot with H. Alan Scott
Episode: Fantasia Barrino Says the ‘Fight was Worth It’ to Get to ‘The Color Purple’
Description: Sometimes a performance comes along where when you watch it, you just can’t imagine anyone else playing that role. That’s what Fantasia Barrino has done in ‘The Color Purple’ (December 25). “I do believe that I am Celie. Celie is me.” In the adaptation of the Broadway musical based on the 1985 film and novel by Alice Walker, Barrino makes her big-screen debut. She told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott this moment feels “like a dream come true. I still pinch myself because I can’t believe it’s happening.” While the film is a bold depiction of the horrors many Black wom...