OPRAH Winfrey is calling it quits – as a movie star.
“I don’t have any desire to return,” Winfrey told Larry King last night in a rare live interview.
The talk show host/media mogul has starred in two critically acclaimed movies, “The Color Purple” and “Beloved,” but says she’ll stick to producing films and appearing on her daily talk show from now on.
“With ‘Beloved,’ I said everything that I had to say,” Winfrey said, echoing “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee, who once said the same thing to Oprah when she asked Lee why she only wrote one book.
“I feel strongly that that was the moment for me,” Winfrey said of “Beloved” the 1998 film based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.
“What I do have the desire to do is produce good films for other people,” she said.
Oprah is currently working behind the scenes on a new TV movie for ABC called “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” which stars Halle Berry.