OPRAH WINFREY was humiliated on-set by legendary director Spielberg for acting sort of a TV host while filming her Oscar-nominated performance within the Colour Purple.

The US chat show star has attracted renewed interest after announcing she has interviewed Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. She warned “no subject” would be “off-limits” during a teaser trailer before the show’s debut this weekend. 

Oprah has been a firm fixture of TV within the US and has previously interviewed Sarah Ferguson, killers and bickering families. 

But Oprah has also flirted with being a movie actress and starred in additional than 15 films during her near-four-decade-long career in entertainment industry.

She surprised audiences together with her powerful performance as Sofia in her first movie, Steven Spielberg’s 1985 hit the color Purple.

The story detailed African-American women’s struggles during the first 20th century.

The portrayal of Sofia earned her an Academy Award, now the Oscars, nomination for Best Supporting Actress.


The film was listed for 11 Academy Awards in total and 4 Golden Globes, of which Whoopi Goldberg won Best Actress during a Drama.

Despite receiving critical acclaim, Oprah revealed it had been not a simple task for her to navigate from the World of TV to acting.

She recalled landing in predicament during her first day of filming during a 2013 interview with Larry King.

Oprah’s debut was filmed as “the first shot of the primary day”, and before the role she had “never even been on a universal tour”.

The star detailed how when she went on set she automatically started trying to find the camera, something she would always neutralize her role as a TV host.

She said: “I had no idea how a movie worked.


“I walked into the duke joint… and I’m trying to find the camera because I even have been a student of television my whole life.

“I enter, I check out the camera and that i say, ‘How are you doing Miss Celie?’” 

Oprah said her first attempt didn't go down well and recalled: “Spielberg yelling, ‘Cut, cut!’”

She claimed Spielberg then vented: “What is she doing? Oh my God!”

At now, Oprah was “terrified” and therefore the director approached her.

She recalled: “Steven comes and he says, ‘What are you doing?’ 

“I said, ‘I was saying the road .’”

Spielberg fired back: “Well, why are you looking within the camera? 

Oprah replied: “Well, aren’t I alleged to look within the camera?”

Mimicking Spielberg’s frustration as she reenacted the interaction, Oprah raised her tone and said: “You’re alleged to check out Miss Celie! 

“Because that's who are you're talking to!”

Oprah confessed: “So that's how little I knew about making movies!”

She went on to star in Beloved, The Princess and therefore the Frog, The Butler, Selma, A Wrinkle In Time and others.

Oprah hired legendary acting coach Susan Batson who had “worked with tons of the greats”.

She “begged” the teacher to try to do a couple of sessions together with her because she was “so worried” about not being “able to cry on cue”.