12 Years A Slave Moves Madonna And Oprah To Tears

12 years a slave has certainly lived up to the hype as the most realistic depiction of slavery as it is has turned on the water works for a lot of moviegoers.

It seems that we are not the only ones leaving movie theatres in tears, celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and Madonna have been moved to tears due to this Steve McQueens movie. Oprah confessed in an interview with BBC that she was moved to tears after watching this heartbreaking film.

“It’s impossible for me to talk about it,” she told BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz as she teared up.”I can’t even talk about it.Devastating.”

Reports say that even ‘Material Gir’l singer Madonna was also spotted leaving the film’s premiere recently during the New York Film Festival.
“She was wiping away tears after the movie,” an observer said. “She said she loved the movie

A scene from 12 Years A Slave

The movie tells the true story of Solomon Northup, a free man from New York who was abducted and sold into slavery in 1841. He survived working on plantations in Louisiana for 12 years before he was released. Chitwetel Eliofor stars as Solomon with Michael Fassbender as his brutal slave owner. Both are already big Oscar contenders, as is Lupita Nyong’o, the film’s breakout star who plays a slave named Patsey. Brad Pitt, who has a small role in 12 Years, is one of the movie’s producer

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