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    Jennifer Hudson

    Dec 20, 2019 1 minute
    Illustration by BRITT SPENCER
    —H. Alan Scott

    “WORKING ON THIS FILM WAS DIFFERENT THAN ANYTHING I HAD DONE BEFORE,” says Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson about her work on the film adaptation (opening this month) of the iconic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical . Hudson plays and ) and also starring Taylor Swift, Idris Elba and Judi Dench, is so highly anticipated that the trailer went viral. It’s the emotional intensity of characters like Hudson’s Grizabella that is largely responsible for giving the story weight and heart. Hudson says she thought a lot about her character’s “past” and how a rough life impacted her physically. “We wanted people who saw her on-screen to think, ‘What happened to her?’”

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