Oprah Winfrey CRASHES H.E.R. Intv At 'The Color Purple' Premiere
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00:00 My name ain't Squeak!
00:02 (laughing)
00:03 - Hi, how are you?
00:04 - I'm better now.
00:05 - I'm loving this purple suit.
00:06 - I'm loving this whole situation.
00:08 How are you feeling tonight?
00:10 - Oh my gosh, I'm so excited.
00:12 Like, I'm like, wow.
00:13 Oh my gosh, and look how pretty, it's amazing.
00:16 Hi!
00:17 - You did it, you did it, you did it.
00:19 - I can't believe we're here.
00:20 - In the purple.
00:21 - Yes.
00:22 - Come on.
00:23 Amazing.
00:24 You know, no big deal.
00:27 - No big deal.
00:28 - Just your life.
00:29 - Man, I feel so grateful to be here.
00:31 I'm like, wow, this is amazing.
00:33 - Okay, do you get a call that you are secured in,
00:38 you are locked in?
00:40 Is it an email?
00:41 How do you find out that you are gonna be
00:43 in the reimagining of the color purple?
00:45 - Oh my gosh, I had a Zoom with Blitz,
00:49 and he's amazing, I got to know him,
00:51 and he was so excited, telling me, like,
00:53 we're gonna do this, and I'm thinking,
00:54 okay, maybe the music or whatever,
00:56 and he's like, we want you to play Squeak.
00:57 And I was like, oh my gosh.
01:00 I was like, this is crazy.
01:02 So I was so excited, and I'm like,
01:04 I can't believe we're here now.
01:06 - Here now.
01:07 Oprah said the strike was over in four days.
01:10 She was like, what's the outfit, what are we doing?
01:13 - Literally, and we just, I wasn't ready.
01:15 I was unprepared.
01:16 I was unprepared, but here we are, right?
01:19 Here we are.
01:20 - Looking fantastic.
01:21 I feel like Fantasia Barrino needs to get all of the things.
01:26 - Oh, absolutely, and she will.
01:29 - You were there.
01:30 - She killed it.
01:31 She killed it.
01:33 - Tell me what it was like to watch her perform
01:35 I'm Here live, take after take after take.
01:39 - Oh my gosh, insane.
01:40 I didn't get to see all of it.
01:41 I just saw the playback, but I was so moved.
01:45 She's incredible.
01:46 She is incredible.
01:48 - As are you.
01:49 I'm gonna tell you, there was a point in the movie,
01:52 I was like, now I know that we're not gonna have
01:55 this woman in this movie, and she, oh, there she go.
01:58 There she go, I was like, oh, she got it, she got it.
02:01 I mean, this is gonna be something
02:03 that we're watching for decades.
02:05 - I know, it's crazy.
02:06 I can't believe it.
02:07 I'm like, wow, this is, I have no words.
02:10 I'm like, wow.
02:11 - Wow is the word.
02:12 - That's it.
02:13 - Boom.
02:14 It's so good to see you.
02:14 (kissing)
02:15 (upbeat music)
02:18 (upbeat music)
02:21 (upbeat music)
02:24 (upbeat music)
02:26 (upbeat music)