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‘Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia’ Star Danielle Brooks On How The Seeds Were Planted For Her To Play The Iconic Gospel Legend – TCA

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Danielle Brooks was destined to play iconic gospel artist and civil rights activist Mahalia Jackson. At Lifetime’s TCA presentation of Robin Roberts Presents Mahalia today, the Tony Award nominee and Grammy Award-winning actress said that the seed was planted years before the project came about.Brooks recalled how two of her castmates from the Broadway production of The Color Purple piqued her interest in playing Mahalia Jackson.“I had the privilege of working with Jennifer Hudson and I remember her coming to my dressing room, which she did every day before she got on stage, and we would chat and she said, you should play Mahalia Jackson,” recalled Brooks. “I didn’t think too hard about it but then when Jennifer Holliday came and stepped

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