She called me while I was on Broadway doing The Color Purple - and just so happened to be right next door doing the play Eclipsed. We had several conversations about it, but she made it official in 2016. It was about eight years after our initial meeting. During a recent promotional visit to Franklin’s hometown of Detroit - where she visited the artist’s childhood home and sang in the local New Bethel Baptist Church - Hudson sat down to share the rigors of living up to the Queen’s standards. It’s a performance that certainly deserves, well, respect. “I can’t even imagine the pressure that she was feeling. “Jennifer is a disciplined, rigorous artist … and she knew ,” says Tommy. Jennifer Hudson as Aretha Franklin in 'Respect.' MGMĪt the center of it all is Hudson, a Grammy Award-winning singer who also won the Academy Award for best supporting actress in 2006’s Dreamgirls.
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