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All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
#75All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 3/19/12 at 2:46pm
Casting is announced:
Jill Scott as Truvy
Queen Latifah as M'Lynn
Phylicia Rashad as Clairee
Condola Rashad as Shelby
Alfre Woodard as Ouiser
Adepero Oduye as Annelle
Too bad Phylicia and Condola aren't playing mother and daughter here!
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steel-magnolias-lifetime-queen-latifah-phylicia-rashad-jill-scott-alfre-woodard-301662
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#76All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 3/19/12 at 2:59pmRemake of "Steel Magnolias" starring Queen Latifah, which is set in a beauty shop, much like the movie "Beauty Shop" which is set in a beauty shop and stars Queen Latifah.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#77All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 3/19/12 at 3:05pmAlthough I'd have loved to see Loretta Devine in this, this is a pretty good cast. I'm looking forward to it.
#78All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 3/19/12 at 3:39pm
Condola Rashad as Shelby.
Nepotism, much?
Is Debbie Allen directing it as well. 
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#79All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 3/19/12 at 3:40pm
If she's half the actress her mother is, I don't care about the nepotism at all.
I just reread this thread. I don't even remember calling Jill Scott for this, but I did!
#80All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 3/19/12 at 3:44pmNepotism or not, Condola Rashad is a phenomenal actress.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#81All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 3/19/12 at 4:02pmYeah...the nepotism charge against Condola Rashad seems a titch misplaced.
jimmycurry01
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/05
#82All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 3/19/12 at 4:31pmThis is an exciting cast. I can't wait to see this.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#83All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 3/19/12 at 9:39pmI could see Queen Latifah as Truvy, Ouiser or maybe Claree. But as M'Lynn? That's miscast.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#84All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 6/8/12 at 7:12pmEntertainment Weekly has a couple of pictures from the set in the new issue, but they aren't online yet (and my scanner isn't working).
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#85All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 6/8/12 at 7:20pm
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#86All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 6/8/12 at 7:33pmThanks Diva, and your fancy ipad screen cap!
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#87All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 6/8/12 at 7:45pmAnything for you, Pookie.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#88All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 6/8/12 at 7:53pm
Sorry-Oscar nod or not, I think Latifah is an awful actress and there's not a maternal thing about her. Was Lynn Whitfleid not available?
I think Latifah's big screen career is drying up anyway. Her latest flicks have all been duds.
I was really hoping for Loretta Divine and Diahann Carroll in this, but oh well.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
Updated On: 6/8/12 at 07:53 PM
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#89All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 6/8/12 at 8:00pm
Where in the hell is Jennifer Lewis or Loretta Devine?!
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
Updated On: 6/8/12 at 08:00 PM
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#90All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 6/8/12 at 10:31pm
I like Latifah as an actress. Maybe her career is drying up, I don't know, I don't care. I'm looking forward to this.
#91All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 6/8/12 at 10:37pmI didn't realize that my Alfre was in this!
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#92All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 6/8/12 at 10:55pm
We can "why wasn't so and so in this" all night long.
Loretta Devine
Paula Patton
Angela Bassett
Chandra Wilson
Vanessa Williams
Whoopi Goldberg
Regina King
Taraji P Henson
Gabrielle Union
I can go on, but the point is there are a finite amount of roles in this and, no matter what BettyBoy is grousing about, none of them are slouches in the acting department. While I whole-heartedly agree there are were some unusual choices casting-wise, but I don't think any of them are wrongly suited for this. A Lifetime remake of Steel Magnolias.
#93All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 6/8/12 at 11:26pm
I love Gabrielle Union, actually I love that whole list. Paula Patton I feel doesn't get enough work, hopefully not being part of the next couple of MI movies it'll get her some more work.
Wasn't Whoopi approached and she turned it down due to The View schedule? I thought I read that some where or something.
#94All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 6/9/12 at 12:11am
I'm sorry to disagree with you Phyll-you know I love you, but IMHO Latifah plays everything, including her Pizza Hut, Cover Girl and Jenny Craig commercials like a lesbian basketball coach. I don't think its possible for her to shrug her shoulders or****her head or squint anymore than she already does. I actually made a drinking game out of it.
I'll probably play it during Steel Magnolias.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#95All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 6/9/12 at 12:14amIf you're sorry to disagree with me, then don't disagree with me! I'm kidding. I'm sorry you don't like her, but maybe she'll surprise you in this.
#96All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 6/9/12 at 12:45am
BWW censored my saying c-ck her head. I wrote the word c-ck and it appeared with little stars on it. Hmmmm......
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
Updated On: 6/9/12 at 12:45 AM
#97All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 6/9/12 at 1:34amI wast trying to figure out what the **** was. Shlt her head makes mo sense so I was confused.
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#98All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 6/9/12 at 8:36am
"I didn't realize that my Alfre was in this!"
So now it's ok?
"BWW censored my saying c-ck her head."
Can you still type c****ay?
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#99All-Black STEEL MAGNOLIAS Film In The Works
Posted: 6/9/12 at 8:38amGuess not. Shame. I like a nice white wine.
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