Jennifer Hudson in Net-A-Porter's The Edit: There's More To Fame Than Just Making It

Jennifer Hudson in Net-A-Porter's The Edit: There's More To Fame Than Just Making It

Her brand new holiday film “Black Nativity” opened in theaters today (November 27), and during promotions, Jennifer Hudson fronted the latest issue of Net-A-Porter’s The Edit.

While donning designer garbs from Saint Laurent and Marc Jacobs for the Francesco Carrozzini-shot spread, the 32-year-old actress/singer dished about winning her Best Supporting Actress Oscar award in 2007 and shared details about her life since becoming a superstar after “American Idol.”

Check out a few highlights from Miss Hudson’s interview below. For more, be sure to visit The Edit!

On her Oscar:
“I didn’t know what the Oscars was. Where we come from, we don’t know anything about that world. If you see it on TV, it’s like, ‘Oh, people in fancy suits and ties.’ Jamie Foxx [her co-star] was like, ‘You know you’re going to win an Oscar?’ I didn’t pay him any attention. I was hired to do a job. That’s all I knew. ”

On her life since “American Idol”:
"It is so bizarre to me to say, ‘OK, let me go email Alicia [Keys], let me go email Beyonce, let me go talk to Oprah…’ For so long I sat and admire them; now I’m among them. What I feel about people you never heard from again is that they get too caught up in the hype. They think that just getting here is making it. No, it’s not making it. It’s like a losing-weight situation: it’s one thing to lose it, it’s another to keep it off. Well, it’s one thing to make it, but it’s another thing to stay. [That is] why you have to constantly do stuff to keep people’s attention. It’s a hustle, it really is.”

On her new movie “Black Nativity”:
“I turned down I don’t know how many [musicals]. What drew me to this is that it’s a holiday film: I’m a holiday fanatic. It’s uplifting â€" we don’t have enough of that in the world.”

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