What you Must Know About Oprah Winfrey's "Absolutely Amazing" Performance in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Oprah Winfrey is a force to recon with, both on the screen and off. The media mogul has everybody buzzing with her new acting role in HBO's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. In the film, Winfrey plays as Deborah Lacks, the child of a woman whose cells revolutionized medical treatment. It is a role she was intimidated to do.

"I have done five movies in my life," Winfrey told narrated. "So my repertoire is very small. Every time I am on stage I just feel like everybody here knows more than I do, so you have to then hand yourself  to somebody who knows what they are doing, so that is what I did."

"Is that not funny?" Rose Byrne told our team about her costars fears.

"It is incredibly humbling to hear that from her. Look, I was intimidated by her obviously," Byrne told out team. "She had a big undertaking physically and was really without vanity this performance, it is not by any means a glamorous part and she just went there."

Hamilton's Renee Elise Goldsberry plays Henrietta Lacks, Oprah Winfrey’s mother in the film, but the two never share scenes.

"That is right, I actually did not get to film scenes with her, which makes me,more objective. I think when I tell people she is absolutely brilliant in this film you have to believe me because I am not remembering something that happened on set. I am really just watching this performance and I am weeping at the end of this film watching the journey she took as Deborah Lacks," she told our team. "It is absolutely amazing."

Goldsberry confirmed what everybody was long assuming: Winfrey is the real deal.

"She is just filled with light," she told us.