Director Lee Daniels says he never thought his new movie, Precious, would have much success. In fact, he never even thought it would be released in theatres.
"I thought it was going to go straight to DVD," Daniels told eonline.com at Precious' AFI Fest 2009 in Hollywood Sunday. "I mean, who was going to want to see a movie about an obese black girl learning how to read?"
But then he got a call from Oprah Winfrey ...
"I was winning my second award at Sundance and the phone rang," Daniels said. "It was Oprah. I knew then I was not going to DVD."
"I called to say, 'I have to do whatever I can to help promote this movie,'" said Winfrey.
