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)

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