As Fantasia Barrino rides the awards season buzz for her function movie performing debut in “The Coloration Purple,” the “American Idol” winner is pondering of her subsequent strikes on the massive display.
“I would like one thing very difficult,” Fantasia advised Selection Tuesday evening at Elle’s Girls in Hollywood occasion in Los Angeles, the place she was honored alongside her co-stars Danielle Brooks and Taraji P. Henson. “I wish to step out and do a personality you’d in all probability by no means consider me as.”
She added with a sinister snigger, “I would like you to hate me.”
Fantasia suggests a “John Wick” film or not less than one which’s comparable. “Was John Wick a villain?” she requested. “Possibly not, however he was kick-ass. I would like one thing the place I can kick ass!”
Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks and Taraji P. Henson attend Elle’s 2023 Girls in Hollywood.
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Brooks mentioned she’s open to a different musical – she originated her function of Sophia in “The Coloration Purple’s” Tony-winning Broadway revival – however doesn’t have one in thoughts.
“I would like an authentic,” she mentioned. “I’ve been stepping in others’ footwear for thus lengthy that now I would like one thing new. I don’t the story. I simply want a great author, good phrases, good actors.”
“Coloration Purple” producer Oprah Winfrey introduced Brooks, Taylor and Henson with their honors in the course of the Elle dinner.
Henson recalled Winfrey’s first go to to set. “She grabs my hand. And I’m like, ‘Oh, my goodness,’” Henson mentioned. “She’s simply lovely and heat. And she or he’s giving us the stage, passing the baton and telling us all to make the characters ours. … After we wrapped for the day, all of us did the Electrical Slide with Oprah Winfrey.”
How have been O’s dance strikes? “She was unbelievable,” Henson mentioned earlier than including with fun, “However do you assume if she wasn’t, I might let you know that?”
