S. African Actor’s Union Wants Jennifer Hudson Gone
South African actors are angry that Jennifer Hudson has been cast to play Winnie Mandela in the movie Winnie.
The Creative Workers Union of South Africa said using foreign actors to tell the country’s stories undermined efforts to develop the national film industry.
“It can’t happen that we want to develop our own Hollywood and yet bring in imports,” the union’s president Mabutho Sithole said in The Citizen newspaper.
The union will seek a moratorium against the film of Jennifer is not removed from the role.
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