With the Oscars right around the corner, Oprah Winfrey will be airing her two-hour segment, Oprah’s Oscar Special. In this sneak preview clip below, the former talkshow host takes viewers into the lives of three breakout Oscar nominees, two of which being The Help co-stars Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer.
In Oprah’s one-on-one with Viola Davis, the actress admitted that she had a “horrible” midlife crisis after receiving the Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Doubt. “I thought I should be happier than this. I felt an emptiness. I didn’t know success felt that way.”
Be sure to tune in to Oprah’s Oscar Special, which airs tonight, February 15 at 9/8pm CST on the OWN network.
Check out the February 2012 cover of O Magazine. These issue features interviews with Drew Barrymore and of course lifestyle tips from Oprah’s All-Star connects.
In related news, check out a clip of an all-new episode of Oprah’s Next Chapter where Oprah interviews actor and humanitarian Sean Penn. The celebrated star arrived in Haiti just days after a devastating earthquake killed more than 300,000 people and left another 1.5 million homeless. Two years later, he has established an organization called J/P HRO and is running a tent camp that provides housing for 20,000 residents. Tune in Sunday, January 29, at 9/8c to watch the episode.
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Many of us weren’t even been born when Alex Haley published Roots: The Saga of an American Family in 1976 or when it became a landmark award-winning television miniseries the following year. But “the story that changed America” has become an integral part of this country’s cultural, political and social dialogue.
In honor of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the miniseries, Oprah Winfrey sits down with John Amos, LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett Jr., Cicely Tyson, Leslie Uggams and Ben Vereen at her home in the OWN special event Oprah and the Legendary Cast of Roots: 35 Years Later, which premiered last night. Check out a snippet above as the cast discusses whether Roots opened the door to a greater conversation about race in America.
