'The Color Purple' Author Alice Walker Celebrates Shug-Celie Romance in Remake: "We Really Needed to See That Love Is Love" | THR News Video - video Dailymotion

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'The Color Purple' author Alice Walker is opening up about the importance of seeing Celie and Shug's romance on screen in the new film. Steven Spielberg's 1985 feature adaptation of 'The Color Purple' saw the characters of Celie and Shug share a short kiss, but not much else hints at the love affair that was integral to author Walker's novel the movie was based on. Now, the new musical adaption of 'The Color Purple', makes it clear that Taraji P. Henson's Shug and Fantasia Barrino's Celie are romantically involved.

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00:00Put it on. This ain't me. Hush. We need to look like we belong. Let's see this smile in color.

00:07Oh, sweet and loving God.

00:11The Color Purple author Alice Walker is opening up about the importance of seeing

00:15Celie and Suge's romance on screen in the new film. Steven Spielberg's 1985 feature adaptation

00:20of The Color Purple saw the characters of Celie and Suge share a short kiss,

00:25but not much else since the love affair that was integral to Walker's novel the movie was based on.

00:29Now, the new musical adaptation of The Color Purple, released on Christmas Day,

00:33makes it clear that Fantasia Barrino's Celie and Taraji P. Henson's Suge are romantically involved.

00:39Walker tells The Hollywood Reporter she is overjoyed that Suge and Celie's relationship

00:43is finally depicted as she intended. She said,

00:59Oprah Winfrey, a producer on the new film and an Oscar nominee for her role as Sophia in the 1985 movie,

01:05says just the brief kiss the two characters had in the first film was a lot for its time.

01:09She said in an interview with THR for a recent cover story on the film,

01:13God, there was so much talk about that kiss in 1985. And it wasn't even a kiss in 1985.

01:18It was like a pet. And we thought, certainly, now you can express the nature of their relationship.

01:22The Color Purple opened to $18.1 million on Monday, the second best showing ever for a

01:28movie opening on Christmas Day, and the best since 2009. For more on this story,

01:33go to THR.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

'The Color Purple' Author Alice Walker Celebrates Shug-Celie Romance in Remake: "We Really Needed to See That Love Is Love" | THR News Video

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