Jennifer Hudson takes on her first lead role as Winnie, the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, in the biopic “Winnie Mandela.” The Oscar-winning actress revealed in a recent interview, that taking on the role as the anti-apartheid activist was “intimidating.”
“It was very intimidating for me, actually,” said Hudson. “This is something they clearly treasure and take very seriously,” she added. “I thought if I am going to do this I have to be all in. I thought maybe I should go home. And then I thought, this is a story that I would want to be a part of and tell.”
The biopic, which opens in U.S. theaters on Friday, will follow a young Winnie throughout the decades she spent as the public face of her imprisoned husband’s fight against white rule.
