Bailey is featured prominently alongside Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and Colman Domingo in a new trailer for the movie musical adaptation of The Color Purple, due out this Christmas. Based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel, The Color Purple follows sisters Celie and Nettie, who are growing up in rural Georgia in the early 1900s. Barrino stars as the adult Celie, a role she played to critical acclaim in the stage version of the musical in 2007. Watch The Color Purple trailer below... The Color Purple was first adapted for the big screen by Steven Spielberg in 1985, starring Whoopi Goldberg as Celie.

Source: Huffington Post May 23, 2023 09:03 UTC