H.E.R. will make her big-screen debut in the upcoming film adaptation of the Broadway musical version of The Color Purple.
The Grammy- and Oscar-winning singer is set to play Squeak — a juke joint waitress/aspiring singer — in the film adaptation produced by Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, the 1985 film’s star and director, the Hollywood Reporter writes.
Rae Dawn Chong played the role of Squeak in the Spielberg film, while Krisha Marcano portrayed the character in the original Broadway cast.
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and adapted from the 1985 film,...
The Grammy- and Oscar-winning singer is set to play Squeak — a juke joint waitress/aspiring singer — in the film adaptation produced by Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, the 1985 film’s star and director, the Hollywood Reporter writes.
Rae Dawn Chong played the role of Squeak in the Spielberg film, while Krisha Marcano portrayed the character in the original Broadway cast.
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and adapted from the 1985 film,...
- 8/28/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
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