'The Color Purple' Star Fantasia Barrino on How Oprah Winfrey Was a Mentor to Her | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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Fantasia Barrino shares with THR on the red carpet of the 2024 Golden Globes how Oprah Winfrey was a mentor to her during filming for 'The Color Purple'.

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00:00What does it mean to be here tonight and nominated for this performance?

00:04I'm going to always keep it real.

00:06It means a lot.

00:07I keep thinking about my grandmother, who's in heaven right now.

00:11But I know she's watching.

00:13I bounced back from a lot of things that most said I would never come back here.

00:18So to be back here on this carpet amongst so many greats, it's for her.

00:24It's an angel thing tonight.

00:27This film has had so much box office success.

00:29I saw it on Christmas Day, and the theater was packed.

00:31It was sold out.

00:32What has that success meant to you?

00:34So we did this thing called CinemaCon, because, you know, this is my first big movie.

00:40And I did my lifetime movie, but it was nothing like Warner Brothers.

00:44Shout out to Warner Brothers because they gave us everything that we needed to create something great.

00:50But sitting back and just seeing everything now, it's almost like I'm pinching myself.

00:55It was something that I didn't know that I wanted to step back into.

01:00It was blood work.

01:01It was ministry.

01:03But I knew it was going to be healing.

01:04So at CinemaCon, Oprah said, if you could use one word, what would you use?

01:08And everybody had their word.

01:09And for me, it was healing.

01:11I feel like it's healing a lot of people.

01:13It's not just a black thing.

01:15It's an everybody thing.

01:17It's a man, woman, young, old.

01:19And so that, for me, means everything.

01:22Yeah.

01:23How was Oprah a mentor for you while working on this movie?

01:26First of all, for Oprah to be in the trenches with us.

01:29We were out where there were bugs, mosquitoes, hot.

01:35We would always look over and see her sitting there.

01:38And I'm thinking, she could be eating caviar, drinking champagne, which I would love to be doing right now.

01:45But she was there with us.

01:47This story means a lot to her.

01:48And I already know when you have something that blessed and something that good, a lot will try to come against that.

01:56You know?

01:57And so I will say she was a blessing to us.

02:00She talked.

02:00She laughed.

02:01She did the electric slide with us.

02:03I'm like, come on.

02:04I didn't even know if she could do it and dip into it like she did, but she did it.

02:08And I thank her for that.

02:09I loved that video that was going viral from the set of the movie.

02:13What was it like for you to see the fan reaction to that?

02:15And also, just what was it like being on such a joyful set, even though it is such a serious movie?

02:19It meant a lot because we were doing blood work.

02:21It wasn't easy work.

02:22It was a lot of pressure.

02:23It was a lot of work.

02:24So to see her out there, it felt to me like a girl from High Point, North Carolina, like my aunties and my uncles and how we do.

02:31So it made me feel very Southern and very at home.

02:34So I'm grateful for that.

02:35Yeah.

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