Grammy winner Jon Batiste is set to make his acting debut in Warner Bros.’ upcoming adaptation of 'The Color Purple.'
The film, which is being directed by Blitz Bazawule , is based on the Tony-winning musical from Marsha Norman, Brenda Lee, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray, which was itself adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker.Joining a cast that includes Aunjanue Ellis, H.E.R., Corey Hawkins, and Taraji P.
Henson, Batiste will play Grady, a marijuana-loving womanizer married to jazz and blues singer Shug Avery .’s Marcus Gardley and music by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, the film’s story centers on Celie , a poor Black woman living in the early-1900s South who must find her way to self-love and acceptance after suffering years of horrific abuse at the hands of her father and other figures in her life.
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