Corey Hawkins Tapped to Play Harpo in The Color Purple Movie
Not unlike Benny in In the Heights, Corey Hawkins is makin' moves and makin' deals. The Tony nominee and In the Heights movie star is eyeing the role of Harpo in Warner Brothers' film retelling of The Color Purple, Deadline reports. As previously announced, the Blitz Bazawule-helmed film will reunite Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, who starred in Spielberg's 1985 film based on Alice Walker's epistolary novel and …