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Whoopi had turned down "The Color Purple" role
Indo-Asian News Service

London, Nov 22 (IANS) Oscar winning actress Whoopi Goldberg had initially turned down the lead role in the acclaimed movie "The color Purple" because she didn't think she was worthy of the role.

According to contactmusic.com, Goldberg was shocked when Steven Spielberg handed her the role because she only wanted to be a member of the cast. 

She says: "He gave me the part, I turned it down because I thought I should have a smaller part. I'd never made a movie before, I didn't know it takes months; I thought you went in and did it like a thaeatre piece."

But Goldberg went on to earn an Oscar nomination and admits that she learned a lot about movie making on the set. 

She says: "At the end (of the film), where you see all those purple flowers, they were in buckets. That field was the cornfield, it was the poppy field. I would come in... I'd say, 'How did they do that...? Last night this wasn't here.' The clay, they brought it in and put it on the ground, just rolled it out; we walked on it like we were in Georgia. It was the most amazing thing. It still stuns me. 

"The most memorable moment on that set was looking over and seeing Steven behind the camera and realising that I was in a movie being directed by Steven Spielberg and what that meant... and how great it was to have him as the person who said, 'Yes, come and do this'."