The reimagining of The Color Purple is here, and with it, we are also witnessing the rise of a new star in Hollywood, Phylicia Pearl Mpasi.
Blitz Bazawule accepted the challenge of breaking down and rebuilding The Color Purple for a new generation of fans.
The new movie based on The Color Purple Broadway boasts tremendous Black star power with names like Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Fantasia, Halle Bailey, H.E.R., and Corey Hawkins. Still, one name that also rings bells is Phylicia Pearl Mpasi.
In the film, which is also her big-screen debut, Mpasi takes on the role of Young Celie and shares screen time with Bailey, who plays Celie’s beloved sister, Nettie.
CassiusLife spoke with Mpasi about stepping from behind the computer screen in the writer’s room to in front of the camera and more.
Mpasi Credits Her Work As A Writer For Helping Her Transition Into Acting Go Smoothly
It’s no secret for Mpasi that this role in The Color Purple was the opportunity of a lifetime that she couldn’t pass up. The writer revealed she didn’t have “enough time” when transitioning from the writer’s room to in front of Bazawule’s cameras.
“I didn’t have enough time to transition. I had like a month, I stopped that writer’s room, and then I was on a plane to start rehearsals right away,” Mpasi told CassiusLife.
She continues, “But I’m grateful of the timing of it because I was mastering a skill and telling a story through writing and through dialogue and through words, and all of that did was as an actor, I asked myself the questions I asked when I was writing characters and would just think about the information I wanted as a writer to come out. So, I would look, I think, just a little step deeper into what the characters were actually saying to each other.”
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