Oprah returns to movies in ‘The Butler’
Oprah Winfrey will soon be returning to the big screen. She has a role in director Lee Daniels’ film
The Butler, which starts shooting in New Orleans in July, Daniels confirms. “It’s a true story of a man (Eugene Allen) who served several decades in the White House,” says Daniels, who earned an Oscar nomination for his work on 2009’s Precious. “Forest (Whitaker) plays the butler who serves many presidents, and Oprah plays his wife.” Winfrey, he adds, “was looking for something, and we’re friendly, and we were just trying to figure out the right thing.” Winfrey, an Oscar nominee for her performance in The Color Purple (1985), was executive producer of Precious.