Taraji P Henson is urging for a shift in focus towards the film "The Color Purple" and away from the recent attention surrounding her comments on pay disparity in Hollywood. She believes that the film, which deals with oppression and healing, deserves more attention. Henson also addresses Oprah Winfrey's involvement in the film and emphasizes that Winfrey was actively present and supportive throughout the production. She commends Winfrey for taking responsibility and fixing any issues that arose. Henson emphasizes the importance of women speaking up about their experiences, connecting it to her partnership with Always Discreet and the need to address women's changing bodies openly. Below is what transpired during the interview. "I hope they can focus back onto this film, because right now, to me, it feels like what I said is now becoming louder than this beautiful film," Taraji P Henson tells outlets, while promoting her Always Discreet brand partnership. "And that's not fair to me, or anybody in the film because the film deals with women who are oppressed who live in an oppressed system. Men and women. And all the characters in that film except for the white people. So that movie is about healing. That movie is about sisterhood." "There's nothing to spin!" Henson addresses Oprah Winfrey's comments and the recent headlines. "You saw

the woman doing the electric slide in the dust with us. She was right there in the field doing the electric slide. She held our hands the entire production. She showed up, she was there….there are producers that don't show up on set." "You know, she called me, she called me personally," Henson tells the interviewer. "Not my team, not my people me. And asked me, 'Taraji, if there's anything you need, you let me know.' And I said it with a shaking voice, I was like, 'Well, yeah,' since she asked. And I told her and she fixed everything the next day." "That's what a producer is supposed to do," Henson applauds Winfrey for stepping up. "And what you're not gonna do is pit two Black women together not on my watch." Turning her attention back on the film, Henson says, "We got to heal this in Hollywood, you know, we can't just pretend like it's not happening." She connects the conversation to her new partnership with Always Discreet and the importance of women speaking up about their perimenopausal journey and experience. "How will we make women feel comfortable about their changing bodies if we talk about these things in the dark shadows?" she asks. "That's how change happens. You got to talk about it."