Singer Fantasia Barrino revealed she had to learn tap dance for her first big movie role in ‘The Color Purple’ playing Celie. The star joins a star-studded cast that includes Taraji P. Henson, Halle Bailey and Danielle Brooks. Fantasia first played Celie in the first Broadway production and revealed why she initially turned the role. Report by Bangurak. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Category
🛠️
LifestyleTranscript
00:00 - She's probably involved in this iconic, iconic film.
00:03 Just has something about the man.
00:06 Honestly, it's surreal.
00:09 Pinching myself, but I'm gonna be very, very,
00:11 very honest with you.
00:13 I did Color Purple on Broadway years ago.
00:16 I think 2007.
00:18 And I said that I would never do it again.
00:23 I did.
00:23 See, this role is very taxing.
00:28 It's not the easiest.
00:30 But at the time, I was carrying my cross and hers.
00:33 My life was not where it should have been.
00:36 I was young.
00:36 And so I couldn't let go of the character.
00:42 Plus, this is my first time acting.
00:44 I come from music.
00:46 All of my castmates, Juilliard, studied this.
00:50 They took me from the music world and placed me in,
00:53 and I couldn't understand why at the time.
00:57 And now I see why.
00:58 I am Seeley.
01:00 - You are amazing.
01:01 The names in both your names, Stiltho, Icecroft.
01:04 I mean, it's a giant.
01:06 Did you tell your friends, though?
01:08 - Um.
01:08 That made it even heavier for me to do it this time,
01:12 'cause I'm thinking, these are some bigwigs.
01:15 These are some legends.
01:17 They have created a legacy for themselves.
01:21 And so the fact that they trusted all of my,
01:24 I call them family.
01:26 All of my family.
01:27 To do something like this, we all decided,
01:29 we gotta go in, and we can't play.
01:31 We can't half-step.
01:33 I had to learn how to tap dance.
01:35 That was hard.
01:37 There were gruesome hours.
01:41 There was live singing on set.
01:43 And singing is my thing,
01:45 but not at five and six o'clock in the morning.
01:48 But you keep thinking about the director, Blitz.
01:51 You think about Oprah, what this means to her.
01:54 Scott Sanders, Spielberg, Quincy Jones.
01:58 And it makes you wanna bring your A game.
02:00 - This is your life.
02:01 You deserve every moment of it.
02:03 - Thank you.
02:03 - You've got nothing. - Incredible.