Early-birds have already screened The Color Purple, the upcoming musical adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1982 novel of the same name, the subsequent 1985 film by Steven Spielberg (which featured one of Whoopi Goldberg’s best performances as well as Oprah Winfrey in a career-defining role) and the 2005 Broadway production. And among those lucky first-watch moviegoers are some household names like Gwyneth Paltrow and Laura Dern.
Most movie lovers won't be able to see Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks and the rest of the 2023 Color Purple cast until the film hits theaters on December 25, but stars like Paltrow and Dern got the chance to see the Blitz Bazawule-directed flick early, per Instagram Stories that the Goop guru posted on Wednesday, December 13.
