‘The Color Purple’ Exclusive: Fantasia Barrino-Taylor, Danielle Brooks And Taraji P. Henson Talk Sisterhood And Ending Competitiveness Between Black Women In Hollywood

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The
Color
Purple
Stars
Danielle
Brooks,
Fantasia
Barrino
Taylor
And

Taraji
P.
Henson
spoke
with
Global
Grind
ahead
of
the

Christmas
Day
release
of
their
new
film.
The
ladies
joked
about
which
of
them
was
the
“bad”
sister,
leaning
on
one
another
to
get
through
the
difficult
production
and
how
Hollywood
has
shifted
in
a
way
that
they
all
are
able
to
co-exist
without
being
competitive.

We
asked
which
of
the
ladies
was
the
bad
one
in
the
sisterhood
and
Fantasia
and
Danielle
wasted
no
time
nominating
Taraji
P.
Henson,
who
plays
Shug
in
the
latest
iteration
of
projects
inspired
by
Alice
Walker’s
novel.

“I
love
this
about
T
–
what
you
see
is
what
you
get
and
I
love
that,”
Fantasia
told
GlobalGrind.
“She
was
the
one
that
kept
us
straight,
going
to
say
what
we
wanted
to
say
sometimes
and
then
the
next
one
would
be
Sofia
yeah
and
I
love
that.
They
both
protected
me
and
would
say
stuff
like,
‘Girl
don’t
let
them…’”

“Oh,
please,”
Danielle
Brooks
interrupted.
“She
was
bad
too
in
her
moments.”

“Yeah
she
had
some
moments,”
Taraji
added.

“I
did,”
Fantasia
agreed.
“I
think
that
I
did
because
I
think
that
a
lot
of
times
on
set,
some
of
the
people
who
worked
on
set
maybe
really
thought
I’m
Celie
but
I’m
not,
I’m
‘Tasia.’
but
like
you
said
a
sisterhood
sometimes
it’s
hard
and
then
what
we
dealt
with
on
set,
the
work
that
we
did
that
was
hard.”

“But
we
needed
each
other,”
Danielle
Brooks
added.

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The
trio
agreed,
noting
that
the
dancing,
choreographed
by
Fatima
Robinson,
was
particularly
difficult
for
them
all.
But
all
the
ladies
were
on
the
same
page
when
it
came
to
agreeing
that
this
particular
sisterhood
is
devoid
of
some
of
the
negative
competition
that
was
more
prevalent
just
a
few
years
ago.
While
the
women
denied
being
competitive
in
their
performances
or
about
their
red
carpet
style,
the

TCP
stars
were
quick
to
note
that
their
dynamic
was
refreshing
to
experience.

“What
I
love
about
this,
is
sometimes
as
black
women,
it
has
felt
competitive
in
our
industry
and
I
think
that
God
is
allowing
us
to
show
that
we
don’t
have
to
do
that,”
Fantasia
told
GlobalGrind.
“We’re
going
to
break
that
generational
curse.
Everybody
brings
something
to
the
table.
Shug
Avery
is
different
from
Celie.
Celie
is
different
from
Sofia.
So
we
were
all
able
to
bring
what
we
needed
to
bring
to
the
table
and
applaud
each
other,
and
congratulate
each
other.
The
dancing
wasn’t
easy,
we
all
needed
each
other.”

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/
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Pictures

Taraji
P.
Henson
agreed,
expressing
gratitude
for
what
she
and
the
cast
of
the
film
were
able
to
accomplish
through
this
project.

“What’s
most
important
for
me
is
the
representation
of
the
many
looks
of
women
that
you’re
bringing,
you
know,”
Henson
told
GlobalGrind.
“Because
when
I
got
to
Hollywood
it
was
one
Black
woman
at
a
time.
To
be
a
young
Black
girl
now,
you
got
hair
products,
you
got
foundation…
To
be
a
young
Black
girl
now
with
all
this
beautiful
representation
of
all
kinds
of
beautiful
rainbow
of
how
we
come.”

“I
came
in
right
when
that
thing
was
starting
to
shift,

starting
out
in

Orange
is
the
New
Black,”
Danielle
Brooks
added.
”
I
think
we
were
one
of
the
first
shows
to
really
feature
and
show
that
you
really
can
have
all
of
the
different
shades,
it
doesn’t
have
to
just
be
the
one
and
you
can
have
sisterhood.
I’m
grateful
that
after
that
was
done
so
long
ago,
that
it
still
continues.
You
can
find
that
with
other
women
too
in
this
industry.
I
love
these
women.”

We
love
these
women
too!

The
Color
Purple
is
in
theaters
nationwide
on
Christmas
Day.

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