"It's a Call to Arms, This Movie": THR Presents Q&A With Lee Daniels and Cast of 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday'
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hollywoodreporter.comFor director Lee Daniels and the cast of his new film, The United States vs Billie Holiday, Billie Holiday was a public figure with whom they felt a personal connection, like "one of my aunties," Daniels said of the jazz singer.
But the film, which will premiere on Hulu Feb. 26, reveals a little-seen side of Holiday as a figure whose insistence on performing the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit" amid political pressures made her a pioneer of the civil rights movement. “This isn’t a biopic,” Daniels told THR's Rebecca Keegan during The Hollywood Reporter Presents Q&A powered by Vision Media.
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