Jennifer Hudson as Winnie Mandela in "Winnie"
*Jennifer Hudson says she prepared for her role as Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie in an upcoming biopic by confining herself to an African prison cell for five days after learning Winnie served more than 500 days in solitary confinement.
“(I attempted to) experience some of the hell that woman went through,” she tells the Daily Beast. “They snatched her out of her home and she had no idea what happened to her children. Imagine living that? This was her life! This was real.
