Oprah Winfrey says she saw her partner of almost 30 years, Stedman Graham, cry for the first time over a movie when he saw Lee Daniels’ The Butler for the first time.
Winfrey, who makes her return to acting as Forrest Whitaker’s wife in the film, said "Well Stedman loved it.”
"In 27, however many years we've been together, I have never seen Stedman cry in a movie. And last week, at the premiere, he saw it for the first time, there were tears,” she told ET Online.
She joked about kissing Whitaker in the film, “I hadn't talked to [Stedman] about the kissing scenes. He did not cry at those parts."
Also at the film’s L.A. premiere on Monday night, Lee Daniels told Los Angeles Times that it was daunting to have Winfrey return to movies for the first time in 15 years with his film.
“It was a very big concern -- that when people looked at her on screen, they’d just see Oprah,” he said. “But when she opened herself up and became vulnerable and fragile, I knew that we were going to be able to shoot a movie. It was me tripping, not her tripping.”
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