The star talks about her transition from Broadway to the big screen, working with an all-star cast, and the inspiration she found in Rihanna and Aaliyah.
follows Aretha’s trials and tribulations, as well her fight against racial injustice alongside civil rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The film also introduces us to rising star Hailey Kilgore. You may recognize her from her breakout performance in Broadway’sbut this time, she takes the big screen as Carolyn Franklin, a famous singer in her own right—and Aretha’s younger sister, choreographer, and confidant.
Even when it [the part of Carolyn Franklin] was just an audition for me, I looked into her immediately. I was like,"Okay, this is a young woman who we get to see her grow up throughout the film. She starts the film when she's 15, and she ends the film in her 30s. And it's a story that's being told by Black women." That was the other big thing.
What was the research process like for you? Did you know anything about her beforehand, or did you spend a lot of time on YouTube, or looking at archival footage studying her mannerisms? I'll never forget my first time talking with Forest, and it just makes me smile, because these are people [Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, and Marlon Wayans] who have been doing this for so long, and they're so aware of what they have, and they haven't let any of that go to their head.
Another thing that stuck out for me is I'm stepping into the music world and seeing what Ree [Aretha's nickname] went through of,"You're not pretty enough, you're not Black enough. You don't act white enough, you don't talk white enough. Oh, now you have to be more soulful." That's something that really stung me, because it's the 1960s, and that's what 2021 still looks like for a lot of young artists.
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