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In what film adaptation did Fantasia reprise her role from the Broadway musical The Color Purple?

  • 2013 film adaptation

  • 2015 film adaptation

  • 2023 film adaptation

  • 2018 film adaptation

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Fantasia Barrino reprised her role as Celie Harris, which she first played in the Broadway musical adaptation, in the 2023 film adaptation of The Color Purple, directed by Blitz Bazawule. This adaptation, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, explores themes of love, resilience, and empowerment amidst the backdrop of rural Georgia in the 1930s.
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