The Color Purple
Taraji P. Henson Cries Discussing Pay Inequality for Black Actors
The actor became visibly emotional as she detailed the financial expense of managing her career and how she and other Black actors are underpaid for their work.
Jon Batiste to Make Feature Acting Debut in ‘The Color Purple’
After winning the top prize at this year’s Grammys, Jon Batiste is set to make his feature acting debut in The Color Purple. Warner Bros. is behind the feature adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical, itself an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel by Alice Walker, and on which the Oscar-nominated Steven Spielberg-directed 1985 movie was based. The story centers on a woman named Celie Harris and tracks her lifelong struggles as an African American woman living in the South during the early 1900s. Batiste is set to portray Grady, Shug Avery’s (played by Taraji P. Henson) husband, a sweet-talking piano man. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Batiste would join a previously reported cast of Henson, Fantasia Barrino, Dani...
