While she may have had a small but pivotal role in this summer's blockbuster hit 'Sex and the City: The Movie', Jennifer Hudson will have a bigger role in her next film, 'The Secret Life Of Bees', which will pair her with Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, and Sophie Okonedo.
Set in South Carolina in 1964, story centers on Lily Owens (Fanning), who escapes her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father by running away with her caregiver and only friend (Hudson) to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past.Latifah, Okonedo and Keys play the three sisters
'The Secret Life of Bees' is based on a 2002 bestselling novel by American author Sue Monk Kidd. Directed by Gina Prince Bythewood, the film also stars Nate Parker and Tristan Wilds.
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By: cheryl on 6/21/2008 10:10AM
I can't wait to see this movie in October. It sounds like just the kind of movie i favor. Drama with a twist of suspense. Life stuff that really happens. "Can't Wait"
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By: Teddy on 7/16/2008 5:27PM
Dosen't Hollywood have any black actresses anymore? Why must every film that a studio produce, have a white female actress surrounded with bad, over acting female rap and pop stars from the black community? Can't blacks get some black actresses that have come from acting schools like Angela Bassette anymore? Can a black person even get a role in Hollywood if they arent a rap artist or pop singer?
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By: Blu on 6/22/2008 12:19AM
Apparently not Teddy. Singers & Rappers in movies mean more money. They don't get paid for their talent, they get paid for their name. I'm about as annoyed with it as well, but that's the way things are.
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By: Defan on 6/22/2008 12:49AM
I didn't know Halle Berry, Vivica Fox, Gabrielle Union, Erica Hubbard, Alfre Woodard, Loretta Devine, Zoe Saldena, Regina King, Sanaa Lathan, Angell Conwell, Anika Noni Rose, Hazelle Goodman, April Grace, Tonya Pinkins, Audra McDonald, Viola Davis, and Kerry Washington are all rappers or pop singers!
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By: jreal on 6/22/2008 4:05AM
Why don't you guys go over somewhere else to throw a hissy Fit!! I mean Jennifer Hudson is not even a pop star, her claim to fame was her dreamgirls movie and her audition for some singing show she didn't win, so Next.
There are many talented people who have always been able to act and sing... so its nothing new white black or whatever.
This looks kind of interesting.
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By: goblack on 6/22/2008 6:46AM
why must it be a negative thing to have rappers or singers (females) be in movies?? first of all these woman are talented and have worked hard to get to the stage of acting...they went to drama schools using their income from their singing careers, if anything these women are smart by diversifying their careers to another level, they have a dream and a vision to achieve a goal, isn't that something people always go after?? so they have achieved it and congrats to them for doing it for themselves. To even have black actresses doing it big on the silver screen like hudson and latifah who have both been nominated for the oscars and hudson prevailing is an inspiration because you dont see many black actresses being given the opportunity nowadays...and thats sad!
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By: Jo Jo on 6/22/2008 8:35AM
I'm just saying that there are plenty of black actresses who are talented, educated and well trained-did I say EDUCATED. Who can;t get work being that white studio heads just view every black as a rapper or singer. Then it is the same exact ones over and over and over. My kid's generation have no new black actors coming up the way that I did when Spike Lee started rolling out his films and Cosby started rolling out his shows. Now every black in a film has to have been jumping around on stage or on American Idol just to even get the job! It looks racist and I am 100% certain the black females who have studied and trained to be actors arent amused. I am not spending 50.00 to make a trip to a movie to see some rappers playing around. They have to earn my money -so GIVE ME SOME REAL ACTING TALENT! These new white actors get broken into Hollywood every year and blacks get the same hand of rappers and musical acts passed off as serious actresses.
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By: Teddy on 6/22/2008 8:36AM
I'm just saying that there are plenty of black actresses who are
talented, educated and well trained-did I say EDUCATED. Who can;t get
work being that white studio heads just view every black as a rapper
or singer. Then it is the same exact ones over and over and over. My
kid's generation have no new black actors coming up the way that I
did when Spike Lee started rolling out his films and Cosby started
rolling out his shows. Now every black in a film has to have been
jumping around on stage or on American Idol just to even get the job!
It looks racist and I am 100% certain the black females who have
studied and trained to be actors arent amused. I am not spending
50.00 to make a trip to a movie to see some rappers playing around.
They have to earn my money -so GIVE ME SOME REAL ACTING TALENT! These
new white actors get broken into Hollywood every year and blacks get
the same hand of rappers and musical acts passed off as serious
actresses.
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By: Chloe on 6/22/2008 10:18AM
I understand everything that all of you are saying and agree in some cases (Beyonce & 50 Cent comes to mind first) but not in the case of Queen Latifah. Through her production company she has created opportunities for young black actors and actresses to get on the big screen and Flavor Unit also manages some great talent like Terrence Howard.
I don't see any reason why the Black Community shouldn't be supportive of this film. Not only does it have four (I'll say it again, FOUR) black women as the leads, but it is directed, produced, and written for the screen by black women as well.
I agree with Blu, these ladies have worked very hard and in my opinion are doing an amazing job. They have managed to craft diverse and inspiring careers and should be commended, not vilified.
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By: JellyB on 6/22/2008 7:11PM
Jennifer Hudson won an oscar for her role in Dreamgirls (2006). She is an actor. She had dreams like the rest of us; she worked hard like the rest of us; she achieved her dreams unlike most of us. In my opinion, she should be represented as worthy and qualified.
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