Andra Day is opening up about how she prepared to play Billie Holiday in Hulu’s upcoming movie, The United States vs.
Billie Holiday. Speaking to Leslie Odom Jr. for Variety’s Actors on Actors, the 36-year-old entertainer revealed she went deep into Billie‘s life in order to play the jazz singer. “I basically abused my body for a long time,” she admitted. “I’m joking and not really joking.
I got the role at the very top of 2018. Reading everything I could get my hands on. Listening to every interview. Apparently, I exhausted the internet of Billie Holiday photos.
Apparently, the internet will tell you that you’ve reached the end.” Andra added that she “put my family through it; I put myself through it…I went from 163 pounds to 124 pounds.
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