Danielle Brooks, the visitor on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a tremendously gifted stage and display screen actress who’s equally at dwelling in dramas, comedies, musicals and the whole lot in-between.
Additionally, there’s one thing about Brooks and colours. Certainly, the 2 components for which she is finest recognized are jail inmate “Taystee” on the Netflix comedy-turned-drama collection Orange Is the New Black, on which she appeared from 2013 by means of 2019 (The Day by day Beast known as her “the breakout actress of the present”); and strong-willed Nineteen Twenties girl Sofia within the musical The Coloration Purple, which she was part of on Broadway from 2015 by means of 2017 (bringing her a Grammy Award and a Tony Award nomination), and to which she returned for the movie model that has been an enormous hit since debuting in theaters on Christmas Day of 2023 (which has already introduced her finest supporting actress Golden Globe and Critics Selection award noms, with further recognition prone to come).
Over the course of a dialog on the London West Hollywood resort, the 34-year-old mirrored on her journey from Greenville, South Carolina, to Juilliard to fame; how her half on Orange Is the New Black expanded from two episodes to collection common to show-stealer — and the way The Coloration Purple first entered the image for her throughout Orange’s fourth season, making a juggling-act for the ages; why she doubted herself even when she was garnering huge approval for each of these productions; how she, felt years later, when it was unsure that she could be provided the possibility to reprise her half within the large display screen adaptation of the musical model of The Coloration Purple; plus rather more.
