Jennifer Hudson Talks "American Idol" & Sings "I Am Changing" | Letterman

Our next guest is a talented singer and actress who stars in the movie Dream Girls, ladies and gentlemen, here's Jennifer Hudson. A pleasure to see you again. A pleasure to see you here. Well, this has turned out pretty well, hasn't it? This movie is just A tremendous event, what talented people there are in the movie, it's not like you're there with beginners, oh, you're a beginner, yeah, oh my god, this is my dad's acne, yeah, right? now what did you do? Who knew how to act? No. I actually started on the Disney Wonder cruise, which is the only acting experience, yes, and if they were worried about you acting in the movie, you know what it would have been, but everyone was very patient, very kind, and very understanding. , and you were just there to help me get through it now you were on that show American Idol is right but you weren't the big big champion no I was in seventh place seventh place wow how about that yeah yeah how about America was wrong, the United States clearly was? bad, yeah, and then they put you in this movie, which is a wonderful story and incredibly talented people, and you come in and steal the whole movie, how does that make you feel when you first go out, isn't it? even the big winner on

american

idol

and you steal the whole movie, you know what, thanks, yeah, you're welcome.

It feels good to have a second chance alone, you know, because not every day, I would never have imagined I'd be sitting down. Here I am talking to you now, yes, that's a good thing, that's a very good thing and who have you heard from since the movie came out? Have you heard about many people you didn't know before, oh God? God, yes, I've heard from Whitney Houston to Oprah and God, some of them all never fail. It's amazing to see the support, yes, and the reaction he's getting. Yes, and now you're just a kid. What are you waiting for? do after this movie, well, I hope to continue acting and singing, yeah, yeah, and sit here on this couch now when you're doing a I haven't done many musicals, but when you're doing a movie, uh, is that right?

Is it harder to sing in a movie than it would be just on a theater stage or on a TV show? Oh, it's very different, you have to do it again and again, yes, you have to do it again and again and from all angles and then it is for me it is a different language to theater I have only done very little theater what was that what happened that's my bracelet hold it wow i thought we were and she does magic too she broke free from these handcuffs wow now tell me about your family is it your family they're just so excited yeah everyone's excited half the time they don't know what's going on, so sometimes I don't even bother to explain, like my mom would find out I was. nominated for a Golden Globe and I thought mom just got nominated for a Golden Globe and she said, “Oh yeah, you have a nominee for a girl, no, baby, wait, what exactly are the Golden Globes?” "It's okay, she's just excited because she knows." things are going very well, yes, and where is my home now?, my home in Chicago, Chicago still is and that's going to be a lot of time there, no, not a lot, yes, but when you get back there now, it will be a crazier than it should have been.

Crazy when the show was on, yeah, even on Idol I was going downtown and I remember someone stopped me in the middle of the street, like Jennifer, could you give me a hug? I say, yeah, if I could get out of the way. Street, I'll give it to you, you know, yeah, I can go hug myself, okay, about these guys, uh, Jamie Foxx and uh, Eddie, Murphy in the movie, what were they? It was fun to be here, oh God. , yes, but eddie is very quiet and then there is. jamie, if you didn't see it, you heard his mouth somewhere on the other side of the room because he had the microphone somewhere entertaining or playing the piano, singing, doing something, but a lot of fun must be crazy, a dream, this is exciting, I'm very I'm excited that you have this in your life right now.

It is something wonderful. Thank you. We're going to show people a clip from the movie Dream Girls. Do you know what we are going to see? I guess we'll see when. It's when they put it on the back burner, I think they're telling you that you're no longer the leader, you're no longer the lead singer, yeah, and now you know that all of this is more or less based on true stories, this is biographical, something like that. . Supremes Diana Ross and so on Barry Gordy Did you have that in the back of your mind when you were doing it?

Did you know about the Supremes when you were a kid? Well, I mean, of course, yeah, I always listen to that music because that's what I love old school music and we also did our research, you know, preparing for the movie and we read books and looked at pictures and different things from the Motown area itself, yeah, okay, there you go, I think we got it right. Paul saw the movie a couple of days ago and it knocked me out. I saw her a couple of weeks ago. She was phenomenal with both of us, yeah, yeah, it's one of those things where you're so happy to have that in a movie that you can.

I can't believe it's there and congratulations, I'm so happy it's you. Thank you very much and you're going to come back a little later and sing for us here. Okay, we'll come back later and now ladies and gentlemen performing a song. from the Dream Girls soundtrack cd here's Jennifer Hudson look at me look I've changed I'm

changing

I'll be better I'm the one who said I could do it alone How many good friends have I already lost and how many dark nights have I lost? known walking down that road now I can see I'm

changing

trying every way I can I'm changing I'll be better than I am this time I'm together I'm going to start again I'll change it's thank you very much Hudson and Gentlemen, good luck, congratulations, we'll be there back.