Movie Director to Oprah: “Not This Time, Heffa”

Posted on January 14th, 2009 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: News, Oprah

Posted by Bossip Staff

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Oprah Winfrey can do almost anything in this world, but as it turns out, scoring a role in the movie “Doubt” wasn’t one of them:

Oprah Winfrey may have been named the most influential woman in the world — but she couldn’t convince the director of Doubt to give her a role.

On the Tuesday episode of her talk show, Winfrey told the movie’s star Meryl Streep — who appeared via Skype — that she asked to audition to play “Mrs. Miller” because she felt a connection to it and wanted to work with Streep.

(In her emotional five-minute scene, Mrs. Miller breaks down after hearing her son may have been molested by a priest. Winfrey has spoken out about being sexually abused as a child.)

But the director turned Winfrey down, she says, and gave the role to Viola Davis — who was later nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe.

Poor thang, she must really be down on herself for not getting that role.  It’s not like she has any other accomplishments to be proud of.  You’ll get ‘em next time, Harpo.

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  • iluvprada

    GOLD!!!

  • iluvprada

    @ Bossip..why couldn’t you find a better pic of her?!

  • http://bossip.com/68766/showdown-in-motown-katt-williams-vs-steve-harvey/#comments me

    Let’s see 1.3 billion in the bank…does she really care, she was probably just bored..

  • Aunt Viv

    co-sign @ me

  • Nigga Said

    My claim to fame is that I told Harpo to beat Oprah. Little did I know that Harpo was just Oprah spelled backwards. Damn you Oprah.

  • knowledgeable

    lmao at “nigga said” ha ha ha harpo=oprah backwards lmao

  • Tealeaf

    Oprah plays the same damn characters..fat, loud, mammy types

    Color Purple
    Women of Brewster place
    Beloved
    Native Son
    There are No children here

    ENOUGH..

  • sickofitt

    @Tealeaf Enough is Enough.

    Damm Oprah has come a long way from this picture.
    Oprah need to make a movie about How a black fat chick can make billions. I will go see that for sure.

  • Crazy Ass Rodney

    Top 10. Did you DOUBT me snitchez? ? ?

  • katie

    Bossip you need to be more respectful, please don’t refer to ms winfrey as a “heffah” she deserves your respect. I watched her show and she didn’t seems too cut up about not getting the part.

  • knottmyhar

    Bossip if i didnt know any better i’d think you hated blacks with power…maybe who ever wrote this needs a better paying job! cause you were very wrong 4 phrasing it the way you did…do you know what a heffa is?….just pure nasty…God don’t like ugly.

  • YSR

    Damn! so thats how Oprah looks like without make-up

  • Just Like I Said……

    So, pretty much the producers told Oprah to fall back & kick rocks…

  • PhillyWomanBrownBrown

    Big “O”

  • http://www.bossip.com jjj / Proud Jamaican

    I am so anxious to see that movie “Doubt”…it seems to be a good movie.

  • http://www.bossip.com jjj / Proud Jamaican

    knottmyhar

    Bossip if i didnt know any better i’d think you hated blacks with power…maybe who ever wrote this needs a better paying job! cause you were very wrong 4 phrasing it the way you did…do you know what a heffa is?….just pure nasty…God don’t like ugly.
    ______________________________

    Co-sign! I HATE the Bossip writers their comments are rude, outrageous and nasty every time. Look at the picture of Oprah they chose to put up…that is not her everyday look…it is a character she was playing. WTF? Their hatred is obvious.

  • Immaculate Perception

    It seems appropriate to use a picture of her in character in an article about…a movie role! I don’t get the outrage on that one.

    However, I do agree that the way the article is written is disrespectful…but this is Bossip, not Huffington Post. Most people come here for the jokes and bullshittin’. If you’re here for news, serious issues and real conversations and debate, you’re in the wrong spot. However when it comes to mixing in some serious issues, Bossip is often on point.

    Not many other blog sites take the time to cover ANYTHING real, such as the Oscar Grant incident. For example theY**.com. Black owned and ain’t said shit about shit.

  • Gymo

    I don’t blame the Bossip writer, when you are ugly and poor a lotta hate comes out of you, especially if you can’t look in the mirror without scaring yourself to death.
    If Oprah really wanted that role she would have gotten it, she was just being a good host to a friend.

  • Nellie

    Who knows what to believe BUT what I do believe is everybody can’t get everything they want either they pretty, rich, ugly, or poor.

  • zoa

    bossip is stupid. why do you have to use the ugliest pictures you can find of celebrities? yall know there are much better pictures of oprah. and why refer to her as heffa? i agree that yall need to give her some respect.smh at yall.

  • Jeana

    Why would you call this woman a heffa. That’s sad and you need to retact it.

  • cantcee

    but she’s oprah!! who passes down oprah?

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