*Deon Cole plays an unlikeable character in “The Color Purple,” and he took to social media to share how one audience member reacted to the role.
“I was in the theater watching TCP and this woman I was sitting next to said to herself after my scene, not knowing I was sitting next to her, said “they should come together and kill him!” I slowly turned and looked at her, then I switched seats. The Color purple in theaters now,” Cole posted on X/Twitter.
“Bro…I’m just now realizing this was YOU!!,” one person responded in the comments of the post, adding, “You did AMAZING!!”
During an appearance on “The Talk,” Cole gushed about producers putting a “brand new spin” … “on this iconic film, we all came up on. So being a part of it is unreal.”
“When I first found out about it me and Danielle Brooks and her husband [Dennis Gelin] and a whole bunch of us went out to dinner celebrating her getting a job. I think about three weeks later she called me and said, ‘Congratulations,’ and I was like for what?’ She was like, ‘The movie.’”
I was in the theater watching TCP and this woman I was sitting next to said to herself after my scene, not knowing I was sitting next to her, said “they should come together and kill him!” I slowly turned and looked at her, then I switched seats. The Color purple in theaters now pic.twitter.com/ultqULNGc6
— DEON COLE (@deoncole) January 1, 2024
Meanwhile, we reported earlier that director Blitz Bazawule’s new musical adaptation of “The Color Purple” has a Certified Fresh 87% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
According to ScreenRant, the film’s 95% audience score surpasses Steven Spielberg’s 1985 adaptation starring Whoopi Goldberg as Celie, a Black Southern woman who struggles to find her identity amid decades of abuse in the early 1900s.
The new project reunites Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Quincy Jones as executive producers on Bazawule’s feature. Variety reports that the Warner Bros. movie musical is an adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical by Marsha Norman, Brenda Lee, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker.
Spielberg’s film, which is not a musical, reportedly grossed $142 million against a budget of $15 million. The beloved drama feature has a 73% Rotten Tomatoes score from critics and 94% from audiences.
As we reported, Bazawule’s film had the largest Christmas Day opening for a movie since 2009 and the second-biggest Christmas Day opening of all time, it has solidly gone beyond expectations with an $18 million take from 3,152 theaters in North America.
READ MORE: ‘The Color Purple’s’ Score on Rotten Tomatoes Beats Spielberg’s 1985 Film
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