For Variety’s cover story on Jennifer Hudson and Carole King, the two met up via Zoom — with the “Respect” star in Los Angeles and King in her longtime hometown of Ketchum, Idaho …
“You gave yourself to being her. And you’re not her,” says King. “You’re Jennifer Hudson and you have your own wonderful magic. You brought your wonderful magic to portray her magic.
“I got my start writing on assignment. And of course” with that signature ballad, “Jerry Wexler’s driving up in his limo on Broadway and Gerry Goffin and I are walking, you know, and he pulls up alongside us and he says, ‘Hey, I got a title for a song for Aretha. You want to write it?’ ‘Uh,.’ And we went home and we listened to WNJR, which was the R&B station emanating from Jersey, which is where we actually lived at the time. And that’s when we wrote ‘Natural Woman.
Of working remotely on the song “Here I Am ,” Hudson says, “What better way to pay homage to Ms. Franklin than to bring in Carole King. I feel like it’s like the icing on the cake, the cherry on top. When I heard that idea, I tell you, I completely lost it, like, oh my, this is genius of an idea. And again, my only goal is to meet Ms. Franklin’s request and add every element that was a part of her, her life, her legacy, her story. And I mean, if that’s not Carole King, I don’t know what is.
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