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  • LAST SUNDAY SHE WAS NOMINATED FOR A GOLDEN GLOBE, FOR HER

  • MAGNIFICENT PERFORMANCE AS BILLIE HOLIDAY, AND THIS

  • HAPPENED: >> AND THE GOLDEN GLOBE GOES TO

  • ANDRA DAY!

  • CHE[ CHEERING ] >> James: PLEASE WELCOME GOLDEN

  • GLOBE WINNER ANDRA DAY!

  • THERE SHE IS, I'M SO HAPPY YOU'RE HERE.

  • CONGRATULATIONS ON THE OTHER NIGHT.

  • THAT LOOKS LIKE SUCH FUN.

  • HAS IT ALL SUNK IN YET?

  • >> I DON'T KNOW THAT IT HAS FULLY SUNK IN YET.

  • I JUST REPEATING THE WORDS, THE GOLDEN GLOBE GOES TO ANDRA DAY.

  • AND THEN MY BRAIN GOES, ERROR, ERROR.

  • WE'RE STILL RIDING THE HIGH OF IT THOUGH, IT'S INCREDIBLE.

  • >> James: AND YOU GOT THIS.

  • THIS IS A BOW CAN KAY OF FLOWERS WITH A NOTE THAT SAYS, YOU MAKE

  • US ALL SO PROUD, HUGE CONGRATULATIONS, LOVE, BEYONCE.

  • >> MY MOX TOLD ME WHEN SHE WAS OPENING THE CARD, SHE WAS

  • TELLING MY COUSINS, GUESS WHO THIS IS FROM?

  • SHE HAD TO OPEN IT AND THEN CLOSE IT REAL QUICK TO HIDE HER

  • NAME.

  • I WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO GET BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS, I WAS GOING

  • TO PUT THIS UP, F NAOMI CAMPBELL VIOLA DAVIS, TO SEE THIS

  • COMMUNITY OF WOMEN, PARTICULARLY BLACK WOMEN SUPPORTING EACH

  • OTHER.

  • >> James: IT'S SO GREAT AND YOU ARE SO DESERVING OF ALL THE

  • PRAISES COMING YOUR WAY.

  • FOR ANYBODY WHO HASN'T CAUGHT UP WITH THE MOVIE TELL US WHAT IT'S

  • ABOUT.

  • >> THE MOVIE IS CALLED THE UNITED STATES VERSUS BILLIE

  • HOLIDAY.

  • IT REALLY WAS THE CASE.

  • BILLIE HOLIDAY SINGING A SONG, PUTTING A MIRROR UP TO AMERICA

  • AND THE GOVERNMENT O, SHE DIDN'T WANT HER TO BE SINGING THIS

  • SONG, THEY DIDN'T WANT HER TO BE EMBOLDENING PEOPLE AND

  • INTEGRATING AUDIENCES, SHE WAS FIGHTING FOR INTEGRATION AND TO

  • STOP RACIAL TERROR.

  • SHE WAS DOING THIS HER OWN, ARE PRECIVIL RIGHTS, CREDIT WHEN THE

  • GREAT CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER THAT WE KNEW CAME AFTER HER, AND THE

  • ENTIRE GOVERNMENT PUT ALL OF THEIR FORCES AND THEY CREATED

  • THIS WAR ON DRUGS, SOMETHING THEY ARE FAMILIAR WITH NOW TO GO

  • AFTER BILLIE HOLIDAY TO SILENCE HER, STOP HER FROM SINGING THIS

  • SONG REALLY UNTO HER DEATH AND THEY USED ADDICTION TO DO IT.

  • IT'S REALLY A STORY ABOUT A BEAUTIFUL BLACK QUEER WOMAN AND

  • DOING HER BEST TO FIGHT, IT WAS A BLESSING TO BE PART OF.

  • >> James: THIS IS YOUR FIRST EVER ACTING ROLE.

  • I'VE HEARD YOU HAVE BEEN HESITANT TO CALL YOURSELF AN

  • ACIALGHTD.

  • WITH THESE ACCOLADES THAT ARE COMING YOUR WAY, DO YOU FEEL

  • MORE CONFIDENT CALLING YOURSELF AN ACTOR NOW?

  • >> THEY KEEP SAYING, YOU NEED TO STOP SAYING YOU'RE AN ACTOR.

  • YOU'RE AN ACTRESS.

  • I WAS OKAY, NOW I WAS GETTING TO A POINT WHERE I FEEL LIKE IT,

  • BUT I HAVE A THOUGHT OF ME GOING AGAIN ON SET AND THINKING, "OH

  • HELL NO."

  • Y REALLY?

  • >> I RECEIVED IT, THE LOVE EVERYBODY IS GIVING BUT I FEEL

  • LIKE I'M AN ARTIST.

  • WE ALWAYS FEEL LIKE THIS.

  • WHAT DO WE DO, WE ARE SENSITIVE (BLEEP).

  • LAF.

  • [ Laughter ] >> James: DO YOU THINK THE

  • EXPERIENCE OF PLAYING BILLIE HOLIDAY, AFFECT THE WAY YOU'LL

  • BE THE DOING YOUR NEXT ALBUM, DO YOU FEEL LIKE IT'S BLED INTO HOW

  • YOU'RE GOING TO DO YOUR MUSIC?

  • >> THE ALBUM IS COMING JUNE 4th, IT REALLY HAS BLED AND

  • PROBABLY WILL CONTINUE.

  • WE WERE MAKING THE RECORD WILE I WAS SORT OF DROPPING INTO

  • CHARACTER AND WE WERE PREPARING FOR THIS MOVIE.

  • SO YOU SEE HER DNA ON THE RECORD.

  • NOT JUST SONICALLY BUT ALSO JUST THE THINGS THAT SHE SAYS, AND

  • THE WAY IN WHICH SHE SAYS THEM.

  • PRE-BILLIE HOLIDAY I'M MORE OF LIKE A POLITE, DON'T WANT TO

  • UPSET PEOPLE.

  • POST-BILLIE HOLIDAY, YOU EITHER LIKE IT OR YOU DON'T.

  • THE WAY SHE SAYS THINGS, THE WAY SHE SAYS THINGS, OR THE WAY I

  • SAY THINGS, IT'S A LITTLE EDGIER, A LITTLE LESS

  • APOLOGETIC, A LITTLE MORE BILLIE.

  • YOU CAN'T HELP, YOU HAVE TO.

LAST SUNDAY SHE WAS NOMINATED FOR A GOLDEN GLOBE, FOR HER

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