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Director Lee Daniels on Jazz Icon Billie Holiday

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Society & Culture, News

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Oscar-nominated director Lee Daniels (Precious, The Butler) talks about his latest film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and how the 1971 movie Lady Sings the Blues inspired him to go into entertainment. He reveals that he always has a personal connection to each of his films, that The United States vs Billie Holiday was the first movie that he has ever directed sober. and how his own struggle with drugs and alcohol gave him insight into Holiday’s lifelong addiction. We discuss how the iconic s Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From today's lens, it's hard for some to imagine the United States government tormenting

1:23.3

anyone for just singing a song.

1:26.1

Certainly not Strange Fruit, Billy Holiday's protest song against lynching.

1:31.3

What crime could the United States government possibly find in amplifying the senseless killing

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of black people, black men specifically, for nothing more than the color of their skin?

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Why was an entity of the federal government outraged over a now classic American protest

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