By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
Jennifer Hudson is still in full press mode as she has a new film coming out, “Black Nativity.” She graces the latest issue of Net-a-Porter’s Edit Magazine, and even gets candid about her career and Whitney Houston. She also did an amazing spread for the issue as well. Check out the photos (Photo Credit:Francesco Carrozzini):
Here are some of the highlights of the interview.
On how she is still humbled about how far she has come career wise:
“It is so bizarre to me to say, ‘OK, let me go email Alicia [Keys], let me go email Beyoncé, let me go talk to Oprah…’. For so long I sat and admired them; now I’m among them.”
Jennifer also says one has to work just as hard to stay successful as they did to get successful in Hollywood:
“What I feel about people you never hear from again is that they get too caught up in the hype. They think that just getting here is making it. No, it’s not making it. It’s like a losing-weight situation: it’s one thing to lose it, but it’s another to keep it off. Well, it’s one thing to make it, but it’s another thing to stay. [That is] why you have to constantly do stuff to keep people’s attention. It’s a hustle, it really is.”
On why she decided to go after the role in her upcoming film, “Black Nativity”:
“I turned down I don’t know how many [musicals]. What drew me to this is that it’s a holiday film: I’m a holiday fanatic. It’s uplifting – we don’t have enough of that in the world.”
And on Whitney Houston telling her that she was passing on the torch to her because she felt J-Hud was “the one”:
“As a girl I’d sit in my momma’s house and sing I Will Always Love You. That’s why [singing in tribute] was so overwhelming. I’m just grateful I got to meet Whitney. She came backstage and was like, ‘I turn my torch over to you; you are The One’. I was like, ‘Oh my God! Did anybody else hear that?’ Had she not given me her blessing, I would never have stepped on that stage.”
Beautiful. I just love her personality. She’s so real and humble.
She looks pretty.
I don’t even mind Whitney passing the torch to her. J-Hud can blow.
Gorgeous!
Y’all I’m torn about Black Nativity. I want to support because I love the people in it, I just hate musicals. Ugh. LOL.
I’m the same way. The only musical I ever liked was Rent. But I’m going to see Black Nativity because I want to keep supporting black movies and actors. You never know, you may end up liking it.
Werk!
Beautiful.
She is gorgeous!!
She looks very pretty in those pictures. I hope her movie does well.