The TV host, entrepreneur and actress is at a pivotal moment in her career as a producer on the remake of ‘The Color Purple’
At the Oscars on March 10, Oprah Winfrey will wear purple. This isn’t a prediction, it’s just what America’s entrepreneur, host, actress, producer and sweetheart has been doing for months.
Because when Winfrey commits to something, she gives it her all, and this year’s commitment is one of the biggest she’s ever made: she’s producing The Color Purple, the musical adaptation of the film adaptation 1985 in which she starred. In fact, she has characterized it as “the most important event” of her entire life.
With a TV show that ran for 25 years, a magazine, a TV network, a production company, a dozen properties, a hefty portfolio of philanthropic investments, and a fortune of $2.8 billion under her belt, that’s certainly a strong statement.
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Oprah (who turned 70 on January 28) is like that: steady, articulate, determined. Controls, some say. For half a century, the power of the woman who doesn’t need a last name has extended into almost every field of entertainment in the United States.
She began working at a radio station in high school and, at the age of 19, in the mid-1970s, became a reporter and anchor for local television stations. This led to her own television show, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” (1986-2011), where she chatted with Tom Cruise, George W. Bush, Sarah Ferguson, Whitney Houston, and Bill Clinton. But that wasn’t all. Her book club has recommended over 100 books over the past 28 years.
She is no stranger to politics either. He has close relations with the Obamas and five years ago he picked up the phone to convince Mitt Romney to run as an independent candidate in 2020. In fact, the idea of ​​running for president also fell on the table. Donald Trump said it would be “fun”. She was forced to deny it: “I don’t have the DNA for that.”
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And it’s not that he couldn’t do it, but it’s something he doesn’t need at this point in time. She is one of the most powerful women in the world (31st, according to Forbes, ahead of Beyoncé, the US ambassador to the UN, the president of Honduras and the head of the New York Stock Exchange) and one of its most respected voices country. He also loves what he does. He proves it even now, with inexhaustible energy at the age of 70.
He has not missed a single event, premiere and award ceremony for “The Color Purple” – he has participated in discussions, speeches, evening shows, interviews, promotional videos. Whenever she gets the chance, she talks about how the movie changed everything: “Making the original film was the most important thing that ever happened to me and continues to be a central theme in my life”, he told People. When Steven Spielberg called her to play the warrior Sophie in the 1985 film, she had never set foot on a film set and is convinced that the $35,000 she earned is the best.
“It changed everything… It was a spiritual opening for me to see my life in a different way”, she says herself. At the time, Oprah didn’t even know she didn’t have to look at the camera when she acted.
This film received 11 Oscar nominations and won one award. Her second Oscar, which came 30 years later, is a good example of her evolution.
This year, with the new musical version of “The Color Purple,” Winfrey forced her way into the awards race. It received only one Oscar nomination, for Danielle Brooks as the new Sophie, the role Oprah played 38 years ago.
Her charity she is always aligned with her interests. For example, in August she – together with Dwayne Johnson, the well-known “Rock” – donated 10 million dollars to help rebuild Lahaina, after the terrible fires that destroyed Maui, Hawaii. Two decades ago, he bought no less than 400 acres in the center of the island and has been criticized for buying such a large area of ​​land.
These are not the only criticisms of her life and career, which is always watched with great interest. In 2010, author Kitty Kelley devoted a full-length biography—more than 500 pages about her—like her struggle with her weight without revealing too much. Oprah herself talked about it a few weeks ago. “It was a public sport to make fun of me for 25 years”Winfrey said. “They blamed and shamed me and I blamed and shamed myself”, he said in December. She added that her weight fluctuations have taken up five decades of space in her brain.
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The Hollywood Motion Picture Academy recognized her power in the film world when it presented her with the Pillar Award “in recognition of her exemplary leadership and support” of the industry. A few weeks later, she received yet another tribute when the National Portrait Gallery in Washington displayed her painting in the gallery of America’s most famous portraits. Of course, in the portrait she was wearing purple. As always…
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