Kirsty Young
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Were you in any way aware that this was...
Some sort of audition?
And was it?
It seemed striking to me when I saw The Colour Purple that the role, the list of names went up of the cast at the beginning.
And, of course, one has the impression that this is an epic movie.
You're about to see something big.
Key, though, to the titles coming up, it said, and introducing...
Whoopi Goldberg.
Now, this was your first ever movie role.
That was, for the times, anachronistic.
I mean, that was something that people might have done in the movies in the 40s and 50s.
Really, you're saying to the audience, here is a fully formed star.
You are going to love her.
That's quite a pressure for a performer.
Alice Walker wrote the book.
Is it true that you wrote to Alice Walker when you read the book?