Color Purple stars 'want to make Oprah Winfrey proud'

Source image, Warner BrosBy Noor NanjiCulture Correspondent

The stars of a new musical film version of the novel The Color Purple said they wanted to cast Oprah Winfrey, who starred in the previous film adaptation, proud.

Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks, who play Celie and Sofia respectively, reprise the roles previously played by Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah in the 1985 film.

"It's really cool for them to pass the torch to us," Brooks told the BBC.

Barrino added that they wanted to "bring something new" to the roles.

The film , based on Alice Walker's classic book and Broadway musical, follows the story of a black American teenager, Celie, born into poverty in racially divided Georgia in the early 1900s.

< p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">Oprah is a producer of the film. new film, as did Steven Spielberg, who directed the 1985 version.