Oprah Takes Part in March with “Selma” Collaborators
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Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images(SELMA, Ala.) — Oprah Winfrey was one of the celebrities involved in the Oscar-nominated movie Selma who gathered in Selma, Alabama, Sunday to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Oprah, who served as a producer of the drama and also played civil rights activist Annie Lee Cooper, took part in a march to the Edmund Pettus Bridge to honor the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march in 1965 depicted in Selma.
She was joined by Selma director Ava DuVernay; David Oyelowo, who portrayed Martin Luther King, Jr. in the film; and musicians John Legend and Common, who contributed the Oscar-nominated song “Glory” to the movie.
Before the march, Oprah remarked, “I’m so excited that once again I get to march across the bridge, not as portraying Annie Lee Cooper but as standing in the shoes and on the shoulders of everyone who came before us.”
A screening of Selma followed the march.
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