Jennifer Hudson already has one Oscar for a memorable musical movie and now, tackling the formidable life and legend of Aretha Franklin, she’s in the running for another.
Jennifer Hudson already has one Oscar for a memorable musical movie and now, tackling the formidable life and legend of Aretha Franklin, she’s in the running for another with the illuminating biopic “Respect.” Hudson’s first best supporting actress Oscar came for “Dreamgirls,” a beloved Broadway hit that was a thinly disguised behind-the-scenes story about Diana Ross and the Supremes. “Respect,” however, asks Hudson,39, to embody the woman and icon long revered as our greatest soul singer. Ever. How do you even begin to process that? Hudson began with a benediction — from Franklin herself. The week Franklin died in 2018 she had been discussing — and approving — a biopic, one that she had been interested in since 1998 when she published her autobiography.
