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Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor criticizes 'The Color Purple' adaptations for downplaying the romance between Shug and Celie: 'I just want that part of the book to be portrayed in the films with intention, instead of it being incidental.'
The Color Purple remake star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor was disheartened that the film seemed to cut out a central queer story line. “The Color Purple is a book about Black lesbians. Whether the choice was made to focus on that or not in the cinematic iterations of The Color Purple, it’s still a movie about Black lesbians,” Ellis-Taylor, 54, told BuzzFeed in an interview published on Friday, February 16. “People can try to say the story is about sisterhood, but it’s a story about Black lesbians. Peri