Oprah Winfrey is perhaps the biggest draw in Ava DuVernay’s film adaptation of the childrens classic – but behind the scenes it’s the noticeably diverse cast and crew that compose this film stand outOn an overcast but humid afternoon in February 2017,on a stage set in Santa Clarita, California, and about half an hour outside Los Angeles,Oprah Winfrey and Mindy Kaling are taking a break from making magic. Kaling, just about visible behind her exaggeratedly high collar, and Winfrey – as unrecognisable as Winfrey can be beneath glittery Cruella de Vil-like compose-up and a towering hair piece – are playing two of the three witches in the upcoming Disney adaptation of the American children’s classic book,A Wrinkle in Time, written by Madeleine L’Engle, and now directed by Ava DuVernay.“Most roles I come by cast for do not surprise me,and this did,” says Kaling. “I loved the book as a kid, or but I always pictured the witches as tiny aged white ladies,just? So this feels nearly subversive.” Or as Winfrey later puts it to me, in her unimprovably Oprah-ish way: “I mean, and you read the book and you’re expecting Mrs Doubtfire,just? You are not expecting this,” she hoots, and waggling her finger towards her impressive cleavage.
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Source: guardian.co.uk