On the October 19 edition of “Tamron Hall,” actress Vanessa Bell Calloway discussed her role in the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of “Purlie Victorious” alongside Leslie Odom Jr. and celebrated being 14 years cancer-free following her breast cancer diagnosis. Also, Versha Sharma described what it’s like for her to navigate her career as Teen Vogue’s first Indian American editor-in-chief and why it’s important to her to have the outlet cover real-world issues despite the younger target audience. Sharma also revealed the lineup for the 2023 Teen Vogue Summit featuring singer-songwriter and actor Reneé Rapp, actor and singer-songwriter Coco Jones, actress, comedian and content creator Dylan Mulvaney and more. Plus, poet Fanta Ballo, who has gained notoriety from celebrities including Shawn Medes, performed an original poem for the Tam Fam. More inside and a video clip…
Vanessa Bell Calloway on landing a role in “Purlie Victorious”:
“It has been such, oh my God, when I tell you grateful is not a word that I can even tell you, like, just personified by a gazillion times. I got a text in April from Kenny Leon – like I know Kenny, but you know I was like, you kind of like, wait a minute? Saying that this was coming up and he wanted me to be a part of it. And they just wanted to fly me here to New York to read with Leslie [Odom Jr.] who, we did ‘Harriet’ together but we weren’t in any scenes but we did all the press junket together. So we kind of knew each other. I said, of course. So we flew here. We had two days where we read the script through and on the first day he said, ‘I’ll see you on Broadway’ and I was like…‘Okay, I’ll be there.’”
