…enough to heal and move forward.
The Oscar and Grammy winner further explained that part of the reason why it’s been so difficult to open up about the tragedy is because she can’t quite connect with those who haven’t faced that kind of devastation.
“It’s frustrating as hell to me to have somebody who ain’t lost nothing try to talk to me about it,” she said. “I want to say, ‘Don’t even bother, because you know nothing.’ But you never know how much you can get through until you’re going through it.”
For her next role, in Spike Lee’s black comedy Chiraq, however, Hudson came face-to-face with other women who have suffered similar losses — and it was a powerful experience.
In the film, Hudson plays Irene, a woman whose daughter is killed by a stray bullet while they’re walking to school.
“There’s a scene where we’re all holding up boards with [photos of] our slain children on them,” Hudson recalled. “I turned around, and it’s a sea of real women [as extras] holding pictures of children they actually lost. I’m a character holding a picture of a little girl, but in real life I have the same story.”
Chiraq opens the first week in December in major theaters across the country. Admit much controversy, Spike says the film is to really get people talking about the solution to Black on Black crime.
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Jennifer Hudson On Chiraq: “I Have The Same Story In Real Life” was originally published on blackdoctor.org
