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'The Color Purple' stars Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and Danielle Brooks play "Hollywood Firsts" with The Hollywood Reporter. The stars discuss their reaction when they were cast for the film, their first day on set and the advice they received from Oprah Winfrey.

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00:00I look like I was going to the club and at a red carpet.

00:02Like, I had a lot to learn, and I look back at those pictures and I go, you poor little

00:06girl.

00:07I didn't know nothing.

00:08I was just so fresh, green off the bus.

00:10I see ya!

00:11No pictures, please.

00:12Child, nobody want to take a picture of that outfit.

00:15Hi, I'm Taraji P. Henson.

00:17Hey, everybody.

00:18I'm Fantasia.

00:19Hi, I'm Danielle Brooks, and we are here to talk about our Hollywood Firsts.

00:30The first time I learned how to pose was we would have church pageants, and I was

00:37a pageant girl, and they taught me how to pivot my feet all pageant-y.

00:43So that's that kind of pose, and maybe not the pose that you're talking about, but yeah.

00:46Well, for me, it's been 20 years ago since Idol.

00:51Jesus Christ, I didn't have to tell that, but I don't think I got it right, but they were

00:54trying to help me.

00:55I'm a little country girl, so they would always tell me which camera to look in when you see

00:58any red light.

00:59I never looked at it.

01:00But I tried my best.

01:01That's for real.

01:02I never could find it.

01:03But I tried my best, and I think I was starting to learn then.

01:06I'm better now.

01:07Well, when I was a child, I always thought I was a supermodel, and me and my best friend

01:13used to do, like, local fashion shows, and we perfected the mannequin pose, if anybody

01:19knows.

01:20It's really nothing.

01:21We made it up.

01:22So I would have to say in my early teens, with my best friend in the whole white world,

01:27when we wore wrinkled clothes on the runway, because it was clothes out of our closets.

01:32Cute.

01:33Love it.

01:34My first emotion was, are you crazy?

01:36Did you do this?

01:38Just because this is my first big movie, and I just, I didn't know why they were calling

01:44on me.

01:45But I stepped up to it, and I did it.

01:47Well, I can't see anybody else playing a silly song.

01:50Come on, give me some.

01:52Yay!

01:53It was a lot of fun.

01:55I just remembered it ending with us doing the electric slide with Miss Oprah.

02:00Not many people can say that.

02:02It was different for me, because I thought, I think they forgot that that was my first movie.

02:07So a lot of the camera calls, I didn't know what the hell they were talking about.

02:11How to read them.

02:12Yeah.

02:13Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:14Everybody just decided, like, where do they want us to go again?

02:17What are they talking about?

02:18But I ended up getting it.

02:19You learn quick, real quick.

02:21My first time on set was with all of the lovely ladies, but I first saw Miss Oprah,

02:27and she saw me as the character of Sophia, and we both were just a hot mess, emotional,

02:31excited about what was about to take place.

02:33I got that in my phone.

02:34You do?

02:35Yeah.

02:36Why you ain't never send it to me?

02:37Because I'll send it to you.

02:38Okay.

02:39But y'all were both boo-hooing.

02:40Yeah, it was a moment.

02:41Make it yours.

02:42She told us to own it.

02:43Yeah.

02:44She just reminded me, like, I come as one, I stand as 10,000, which is something that

02:49Maya Angelou shared with her.

02:51But we're all standing as one, but for so many.

02:55I remember it was Orange is the New Black, and it was my first carpet.

03:00The whole thing went a whole mess.

03:02My dress popped, all this stuff.

03:03And I remember being so scared.

03:05All these cameras, and my tongue, my mouth just kept chattering.

03:10And I was like, I was so scared and nervous.

03:13I was like, oh my God.

03:14And I couldn't stop it because I was just so like, I can't believe this is happening.

03:18They gave us these badges.

03:19I was with Natasha Lyonne and Samir Wiley.

03:21Gave this badge that said celebrity.

03:23It was like, oh my God, we're celebrities.

03:26What is going on?

03:27I had leggings with holes in it.

03:29Oh no.

03:30And a turban and like a hot mess.

03:32It was idle for me.

03:34But honestly, I didn't really care about the cameras.

03:38So I just did my own thing because I knew nothing about nothing.

03:41I'm from High Point, South Carolina.

03:44North Carolina, you know, Carolina girls.

03:46So that was all new for me.

03:47So I just did me.

03:49And they enjoyed it.

03:51I made everybody laugh, which I still do now.

03:53And that gets me through because I try not to take it so serious.

03:55Yeah.

03:56This is interesting.

03:57So it was Undercover Brother back in the 1900s.

04:00And I didn't understand fashion and I wore my street gear and I thought I was fabulous.

04:07I had on some jeans.

04:08And you was.

04:09I'm sure you was fabulous.

04:10And you was.

04:11It just wasn't.

04:12I looked like I was going to the club and on the red carpet.

04:14Like I had a lot to learn.

04:16And I look back at those pictures and I go, you poor little girl.

04:19I didn't know nothing.

04:21I was just so fresh, green off the bus.

04:23I was here.

04:24No pictures leave.

04:25Child, nobody want to take a picture of an outfit.

04:28I'm going to say inspire.

04:30Yeah.

04:31Now I'm looking at everything.

04:33I went home for three days.

04:34I had time to like reflect.

04:36And I needed that.

04:38And I'm like, yo, sitting with these women, being around my cast, playing this role, inspire

04:46in so many ways.

04:48I want people to feel hopeful.

04:50Whatever they're going through in their life, that it's going to be okay.

04:55Yeah.

04:56You going to make it.

04:57So don't lose that.

04:58And your faith, like, that's the biggest thing.

05:01Because you can have all of the hope and desire for a thing, but faith is when you realize,

05:06like, regardless of how the pendulum swings in your favor or not, that you will be okay.

05:11Yeah.

05:12What you will see in this film is humans being humans.

05:16No one's perfect.

05:17People fall, but you get back up.

05:19People make mistakes in life.

05:21You know, this thing called life doesn't come with a guidebook.

05:25You live and you learn.

05:26How else are you going to know if the stove is hot if you don't touch it?

05:29You know, so we kind of stop punishing people for being human.

05:33You make mistakes if you're man or woman enough to own up to what you did wrong.

05:39And there's redemption there.

05:41So that's what I'm hoping.

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