For Colored Girls Interview: Thandie Newton in the Kyles Files

Title:For Colored Girls Interview: Thandie Newton in the Kyles Files
Nov.05. 2010 .
Page 6.
By Kyra Kyles.


Newton plays sexaholic bartender Tangie in the film, which opens Friday and is Perry's re-imagination of what many consider an American treasure, Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf."
Perry already has taken heat for adapting "Colored"--a choreopoem that speaks to different facets of the black female experience. But Newton says she and her co-stars, including Loretta Devine, Kerry Washington, Kimberly Elise, Phylicia Rashad and Whoopi Goldberg, guided Perry along the way--at his insistence.
"He was warm and he was clear [that] he needed us ladies to teach him what was what. He was open to us being the commanders of the drama," she said, adding that they have created a vision of which Shange can be proud.
RedEye chatted with Newton about working with Perry, her knowledge of the play and cussing out America's favorite mom.  But it's better to hear from Newton directly, care of a Q&A I conducted while she was in Chicago promoting the film.  I gave you a little taste of Thandie's remarks in today's paper, but there's more in store after the jump...
In my opinion, I think the people should are created equal！ Because even if the skin is different but have the same personality!   So no matter what the skin of people should respect each other.