oprah winfrey shaves eyebrows for a wrinkle in time, forcing the crew to bedazzle them on set.
- angie suprina
- Mar 5, 2018
- 3 min read

Bee Movie star Oprah Winfrey has always been an eclectic actress and TV personality. So it's no surprise that like method shavers before her such as Whoopi Goldberg for the upcoming Sister Act 3: Back In The Vatican, or Zachary Quinto for Star Trek, Winfrey has taken it upon herself to shave her eyebrows baby bottom smooth to play the probably beloved Ms. Which in the upcoming fantasy film, A Wrinkle In Time.
Despite insistent objections of director Ava Duvernay and best friend Gayle King, Oprah threw all reason out the window of her private jet and ordered Hair & Makeup to go to the closest Michaels in Des Moines, Iowa, get the Original BeDazzler with Rhinestone starter pack, and go to town on her shiny, unvarnished eye sockets. Reportedly, by the time she arrived on set, there was so much glitter flurrying off of her bald brows, she was blinking faster than Ty Burrell at a pepper spray convention. An insider in the sanitation department has even come out with complaints that the actress had consumed so much glitter, her excrement appeared as little, tiny disco balls, her trailer toilet clogged to the brim with bedazzled fecal matter. They also complained that craft services was virtually ruined, as the crew were unable to enjoy their chili hot dogs without unwanted toppings of glittery mustard.
But according to more positive reports, her fellow astral traveler co-stars Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling were deeply inspired by the TV host's recent shaving, Kaling going on to recount the exciting energy Oprah's glitter brows created on set --
"You could feel the wind carry glitter into your nostrils before you ever saw or heard her," said the comedian. "And as fast as you could say "care bears glitter fun figure set" she was there, asking to rehearse lines with you or to remove each individual glitter fleck from her sprinkle donuts. It was like it was her Barbie world and we were all her little Barbie girls. And it was a lovely experience. But I do have to admit, when Ava walked in my trailer with that razor, that's when the fun ended for me."
Witherspoon recounts that fateful day as well, but prefaced it with a great deal of love for Oprah, saying, "I felt inspired by Oprah's instinct. She read the script of a woman with magical powers and decided to interpret that as a woman blown up to the size of a two story house with bedazzled facial hair. No one has the intelligence or foresight like Oprah. I just really wish they had let me keep my eyebrows. And if it wasn't for Oprah holding my arms down and Gayle holding down my legs while Ava shaved me, I don't think I could have gone through with it."
"The shaving of Reese and Mindy was a tough day on set for sure," said director Duvernay. "But it was essential we keep continuity in the film. Too bad after forcing them to shave, Oprah decided it was best that she have the sole honor of having the bedazzled brows. So I just gave them a couple of face merkins and no one was the wiser. That's show biz!"
There was a flood of support from other Wrinkle In Time stars as well, such as Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement star Chris Pratt or Wood or O'Donnell or Messina or Evans or O'Dowd or Parnell or Colfer or Angel or Carmack or Hemsworth, definitely one of those Chrises, as well as his co-star love interest Google M'Baku-Raw. Googlethu had this to say about Oprah's character work for the part --
"On a film, we always have to adapt in order to make the best story possible. So when Oprah showed me how she can fry ants to a crisp by bouncing the sun's reflection against her polished brows, I knew I was in the presence of an innovator and a trailblazer."
It seems that everyone has become smitten with Oprah's new bedazzled look. We'll certainly all be rooting for her, Reese Witherspoon, and Mindy Kaling when they enter the annual Spock cosplay competition at the next San Diego Comic Con. I hear Chris Pine's hosting, and he was in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit!
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