Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "That changes the game," Danielle Brooks says of taking the tribulations her character faces in "The Color Purple" from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oprah Winfrey played Sofia in 1985's 'The Color Purple,' while Danielle Brooks portrays the character in the new film The media ...

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Danielle Brooks is happily sharing what the reaction has been like from moviegoers who have seen her portrayal of Sofia in the remake of the 1985 film, The Color Purple, in which Oprah Winfrey played ...

Danielle Brooks knows The Color Purple’s Sofia inside out. She spent a year as the boisterous wife in the Broadway revival in 2015, and boasts that she knows everything from the character’s Zodiac ...

You got to step back into the shoes of Sofia. Was there more pressure this time around? > Yeah, I think a lot of people think that this was a walk in the park for me because I had played her for eight ...

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Every job comes with risks and actors aren’t exempt from them. Danielle Brooks, an actress and star in The Color Purple musical adaptation, opened up about the unexpected physical effects of playing ...

Danielle Brooks is definitely overjoyed at her Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for The Color Purple, after all the many, many years of hard graft she has put into her craft. However, she ...

Me, then a bookish young teen read Alice Walker's marvelous The Color Purple. In Celie's letters, I discover a Black girl's voice and subjectivity that resonates with an unspoken longing in my lonely, ...

Danielle Brooks assumed that her Tony-nominated, Grammy-winning performance as the strong-willed, blunt-talking Sofia Butler in the Broadway revival of “The Color Purple” might make her an obvious ...