Oprah, Reese, and Mindy Talk Wrinkle In Time, Women’s Empowerment, Plus Celebrity Couples

Oprah, Reese, and Mindy Talk Wrinkle In Time, Women’s Empowerment, Plus Celebrity Couples

When my invite arrived for the Wrinkle in Time event, I was so excited I couldn’t wait to see who we would be interviewing from the cast. We all waited in hopes that Oprah would be included in the list. So when our itinerary arrived with the television queen on the list we were beyond excited. The dynamic trio was the very first on our interview list. We sat waiting and Oprah entered the room alone, second came Mindy, followed by Reese to round out the trio.

Many of us still use Oprah’s famous ‘You Get A Car, You Get A Car, Everybody Gets A Car’ line, well one of the bloggers in our group actually did get a car from Oprah on that fateful day. She was able to share that story with Oprah, who in turn shared with us her thoughts and feelings about that day. She recalled being very nervous because she wanted to make people happy. I can’t imagine Oprah ever being nervous but she actually was. She went on to tell us the story of how they prepared that night before for the show before we started the interview for Wrinkle In Time.

We started the interview talking about how inspiration each of these ladies has been, and we wanted to know how they hoped their roles in A Wrinkle In Time would inspire the next generation of girls.

Reese W (Mrs. Whatsit) – Well I think that’s a great question. A part of what I loved about making the movie that I think is also in the movie and you really feel it is the power when women are together, and talking, and not the only woman in a movie or the only woman in a board room or the only woman who’s a manager at her company.

And I think the power of that to young women to say, we’re not against each other. When we get together, we create abundance, and that’s been a driving part of my career, the more I collaborate with women, the more we create for each other. So I think that’s a that’s a concept that we need to put into our little girls’ brains.

Mindy K (Mrs. Who) : Yeah I think just that the cast is so inclusive, I’ve never seen anything like that and I think that as a young woman I would have felt so much joy from watching it. And felt so much happiness from seeing that. And as a dreamer I think I wouldn’t have to dream quite so hard to picture myself on screen.

Oprah W (Mrs. Which) : Well you know, what I do know for sure is that everybody’s goal is whether they can articulate it as such is to live a life that matters and a life that has meaning. And I think that my hand prints, my heart prints, all over the Oprah show for all those years is a magnificent purpose to have lived.

But I also knew when we were doing this film that there would be young girls who would come along and they would see the Mrs. Which and they would see me and they would say, what do you mean she had a talk show and that the imprint, the heart print that you eventually will leave in this world will come from what is said in this movie. And so for your generation that I helped to raise there will be generations to come that will be raised on this story.

Presented in the way through Ava’s vision who will only know me, us through through that. So I could feel that when I was doing it, that wow there’ll be kids who’ll say, what you used to be on television?

Favorite Quotes From the Film

We asked the ladies about their favorite quotes from the film since the movie is based on the book, we know people had lines they just loved and hoped it would be in the movie.

Resse W: I know what my favorite was, when Storm looks up and she’s talking to her little brother who’s been possessed sort of by darkness and she says I deserve to be loved. I lost it, I just lost it, you all I was like, we all deserve to be loved, and we all deserve to tell our stories and be the center, the lead of our own movie, the captain of our ship. And we do not see that enough, we don’t see ourselves enough and I think a movie like this with a company like Disney getting behind it says so much to to young people.

Mindy K: There are so many quotations in the movie, but one of them really in a quick part is when I say, Storm has fallen down and she’s she’s feeling hurt, she doesn’t want to stand up. And I say ‘The wound is where the light enters’ which is so profound and you have said some quotations that are so smart about wounds but I I love that one.

Oprah W: My favorite aside from wounds where the light enters, my favorite is when Mrs. Which says to Storm, do you know how many millions and millions of events had to occur as they did in order for you to be exactly the way you are. And I actually think that about my own life as a African American who came from, slaves and that story that journey. And I think about it for the life of everyone I meet. Everybody on the planet, I just think of what it took to get you here.