Jennifer Hudson Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED

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hi i'm jennifer hudson and this is the wired auto complete interview oh have i ever googled myself before you want me to answer that what is jennifer hudson what does that mean what is jennifer hudson what is jennifer hudson's vocal range my vocal range is first soprano that is my vocal range that's as far as i know but yes but i could send you alto 10 up bass and i call that the hudson nets okay so whatever you need me to sing i can hold down the whole soprano section the church choir what you need next slide uh what was jennifer hudson my nails along give me a second first song i wonder what google got to say about that jennifer hudson's first song would be spotlight jennifer hudson's the actress first song would be and i'm telling you slash i love you i do but i love you i do is my very first original song what did jennifer hudson win an oscar for i won an oscar for dream girls my first film as effie white and dreamgirls the musical and i was also or my song jennifer hudson's first song was nominated for an oscar which was i love you i do but for drink girls what did jennifer hudson hold on hold on name her dog okay guys y'all know i had two dogs i got to give you a story real quick y'all got time okay i got a dog that christmas before i won the oscar and i named the dog oscar and then i want to oscar so then i said child oscar need a girlfriend so i got a dog and that summer and i named her grammy and guess what cha i want a grammy that winner that rolled around and then oscar grammy had a baby and guess what we might be dream girl she's still here but oscar and grammy have gone on miss them dearly so that means i need a new oscar and i need a new grammy what is jennifer hudson pandemic hobby oh i got so many pandemic hobbies as if you did not know i am a two-way artist so i also draw as well as sing the singing comes from my grandmother and the drawing comes from my mother i spray paint draw on everything i can i didn't spray painted the toilets to the bikes my bentley and everything purple is my favorite color one of my toilets is pink and purple i'm having a bike specially spray painted by a professional this time to get it right because i just oh i spray painted the piano too they like jennifer please stop spray painting things but it's like it's my house i can do what i want and my stuff i work hard for my money okay what does jennifer hudson tom jones is the love of my life i love tom jones to be able to sit with him sit next to him and then sing with him and then to listen to his stories like he knew every legend from frank sinatra to aretha and then to password and i get to sit with him and i get to sing with him y'all know he the original done right what we got here all right what oh who is jennifer who is jennifer hudson playing aretha franklin yes i'm playing the queen of soul miss aretha franklin which was a dream of mine and also her request for me to play her which is a dream come true but yet it's the scariest thing ever it's like aretha has taken over my life and i just want to make her proud as best as i can to know someone as powerful as aretha franklin who's known for her voice had to find her own personal voice her own expression her own way and that inspired me i know we all have a respect for aretha but by the time we get to the end of the film i wanted them to have a newfound respect for miss franklin which i do as well you see my necklace watch off all right who is jennifer hudson hold on these nails y'all trying to tell me i'm playing hercules how cutely y'all listen close all my dream girls cast members this is a fun fact have been in disney films anika beyonce jamie eddie has done everything where's my disney bro but i was calliope the head muse on a disney cruise ship so that means i'm ready for my part we are the muses goddesses are the arts and proclaimers of heroes hope with the gladden gladiators hercules that was me calliope so i'm ready just roll the camera you ain't got to send a script i don't need the music i'm ready to shoot so i'll just wait for your call thank you okay who is jeffrey oh and also a fun fact they took as a acting credit my experience on a cruise ship for me to be in dreamgirls who is jennifer hudson's dad and cindy rex i definitely don't know who these are the questions y'all asked okay who is jennifer hud's character in drink girls my character is dream girls it's effie white cup no let me get my key right cuz i ain't saying this is so long cause this time that's not right cause she i was so hot cause this time f.b.i is gonna [Music] [Laughter] oh who is the character i need to read the rest of the question who is jennifer hudson character and dream girls based on i think your film is loosely based on the supremes florence ballard at least that's you know who i studied for effie and drink girls how jennifer hudson is using these nails how is how is jennifer hud how is it how am i doing i am doing so good i am blessed i am grateful i'm happy to be here you know what this to me i would have thought would have been the number one question because this is the number one thing i get everywhere i go the first thing people say is i had no idea you were that tall fun fact i am the tallest dream girl i'm the youngest string girl but the tallest dream girl i am 5 without a heel supermodel with the hill okay write it down also that is why in dreamgirls effie is in flats because i would have towered jamie in heels jamie foxx that is one of my absolute favorites how to sing how to sing like jennifer jennifer don't even know i don't think there's an answer to that sing from the heart sing with joy sing because you want to because most of all is it's an expression because it's your joy it's your expression it's your feeling and as long as you go from there it can never be wrong sing from your heart as aretha would say fill it and i will be there to cheer you on don't you worry how many grammys do i have this is fun because most don't know i have a grammy for my first album and then i have a grammy for color purple but i also have an honorary grammy as well so would that be two and a half or three you tell me okay oh i see you ain't finished the question oh yeah well how many grammys do i have okay can jennifer hudson can jennifer hudson i knew that was what that was gonna say okay listen i can hear by ear a little bit everybody in my family can my son can he gets up plays the piano a host of cousins a little bit i could hear by ear we were born that way but i also took piano lessons to channel aretha franklin that much more as an actor i felt it was important to do that if i was going to embody a character like aretha who piano playing was a huge part of so i felt it was my duty so yes i mean i ain't no aretha don't don't don't you think that for one second but i could peck she played can jennifer hudson sing whistle notes okay oh this is another good one when i was in high school i could do the entire piano like the whole piano and the kids should be like she's still going but when i went away to college the climbing of the weather i couldn't even speak by the time i came back which is why i left college and then i was able to gain my voice back and i changed my singing approach so most notes i hit full voice versus head tone which reshapes the instrument i say i wish so like i could whistle for you right and then but everyone says my whistle sounds like singing so they consider it the that i do whistle notes but according to the j hud production standards no i do not do whistles but i can sing probably the highest notes on the piano in full voice go find somebody who can do that and then we can talk okay can jennifer hudson hold on get this off can i dance if you pay me enough yes i danced on a disney cruise ship cause calliope is nothing but choreography the muses is all choreography all day i have to choose between singing and dancing baby i ain't got time for no steps i need to sing you this song i gotta use my superpower and i just move my knee in my shoulders so when y'all see that that's all you're gonna get is jennifer hudson a vegan i'm gonna tell you all i eat is chicken turkey and fish now you tell me what i am is jennifer hudson an egot according to the j hood production center no i do not i have grammys obviously the oscar but i have a ring that says ego so when i get an emmy i would i don't have an ego which stands for amy grammy oscar although fun fact i have been a part of so many different things that has won emmy's but i personally don't consider it as my own or a a legitimate win because it's not according to my standards but one day it'll come until until then i'll be content with my what i got go grammy and oscar okay uh is jennifer hudson the best singer how are you going to actually hustle if she the best thing y'all trying to set me up nope that's a trick question but if you think i am thank you so much i truly appreciate it is jennifer hudson if am i left-handed no i'm right-handed i guess that's the only answer to that is jennifer hudson is jennifer hudson and whitney houston related i love this question i don't know what is funny is when i go out people easily call me jennifer houston or holiday which is totally fine with me we're in the same family i guess you could say peter's hair if you pay me enough money remember that has jennifer hudson you know jennifer get on my nerves google that i'll be like oh my god jennifer been on broadway yes i have been on broadway i was on broadway doing color purple that was my broadway debut will i go back know about that okay gender does jennifer hudson sing because jennifer has the sake of respect yes i do and i sing live and respect almost every song other than the radio records that's what you're in film those are recorded like radio records but anything that was done live in her life i did live right there in the film so i'm literally acting and singing at the same time does jennifer hudson live in the uk i love the uk that is like my second home oh my god i miss it so much i can't wait to return do i currently live there no but will i be back yes i will because i love the uk and my uk family i miss y'all but i had to come home and do this does jennifer hudson do i have a kid oh little david he is the sweetest little baby in the whole wide world yes i do my little munchkin he'll kill me if i call him unction so i'm gonna call him what he wants to be called d.o.j he's now 11 almost 12 years old and it's coming up and he was actually with me the last time i heard from miss franklin he said mama it's that aretha franklin on the phones i guess it is and the last thing we did was talk about him cooking and i sent her videos of him cooking because she loved cooking and he did he does as well okay my nails don't want to let me do this okay why does jennifer hudson throw shoes guys it is the biggest compliment okay if i throw a shoe at you you must have touched my soul it is a compliment as will i am saying it's the soul get it the soul on the shoe so i guess that's where it comes from but music moves me in a special way and it moves my shoes off my feet that you may catch and i've had people throw shoes at me actually it was the barry manilow audition i auditioned for him and the judges who were auditioning me by the time i finished they threw everything they had off the table at me and i was like oh so it's an expression of love thank you so much i think you guys had some interesting questions i didn't know you want to know those things about me did i talk too much