Mary J. Blige - 'Mudbound'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

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🗓️ 6 January 2018

⏱️ 105 minutes

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"The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul," whose first album was released 25 years ago, and who has since won nine Grammys encompassing R&B, rap, pop and gospel songs, reflects on the pain that preceded the music, the struggles with substances that nearly cost her everything and the attraction to acting that led her to the part of a 1940s wife and mother on a Mississippi plantation, for which she has received widespread acclaim. But first: Thomas Doherty, Brandeis University professor of American Studies and noted film scholar, joins Scott to discuss historical precedents for the sexual misconduct scandal engulfing Hollywood, the rise of political correctness on college campuses and his next book, 'Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC and the Birth of the Blacklist,' due out April 10. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg, recorded by Dennis Schweitzer and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to episode 197 of Awards Chatter,
0:12.4	the Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast.
0:14.8	I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is both the Queen of Hip Hop Soul
0:19.2	and a breakthrough actress.
0:21.0	On the music side of things, her first album was released 25 years ago, and she
0:25.1	since released 12 others en route to nine Grammys, encompassing R&B, Rap, Pop, and Gospel
0:31.1	songs.
0:32.1	She's been chosen as one of the 100 greatest singers of all time by
0:34.9	both Rolling Stone and VH1 and she was honored with the Icon Award at the 2017 Billboard Women
0:41.6	and Music Awards.
0:43.0	Meanwhile, on the acting side, she's been popping up on screens big and small for 18 years
0:48.0	in projects like the 2012 movie Rock of Ages, the 2013 TV movie Betty and Coretta, and the 2015 TV special The Wiz Live.
0:57.2	But never has she received as much acclaim for acting as she did for her portrayal of a
1:01.0	1940s wife and mother on a plantation in Mississippi in
1:05.1	D. Reese's Mudbound which is streaming on Netflix and to which she also
1:09.0	contributed the song that plays over its end credits, Mighty River.
1:13.8	For her performance, she was nominated for the Best Breakthrough Actor Gotham Award, won the Best
1:18.2	Breakthrough Actor Hollywood Film Award, and has pending Best Supporting Actress Golden Globes SAG, and Critics' Choice Award nominations as well.
1:25.8	For Mighty River, she received a second Golden Globe nomination, making her only the seventh person in history
1:31.3	to snag Globe Noms for both a performance and a song in the same year.
1:35.8	And she could easily muster the same feat again in a few weeks when the Oscar nominations
1:40.1	are announced.
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