Andra Day gained fame as a singer thanks to her hit anthem “Rise Up”, but she’ll soon be seen making her acting debut in the role of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in the Lee Daniels-directed biopic “The United States vs.
Billie Holiday”. In the film, Day portrays Holiday during a particularly fraught period of her short life (she died at 44), when the FBI targeted her due to the popularity of her song “Strange Fruit”, about a lynching of a Black man.
RELATED: Andra Day Details How She ‘Abused’ Her Body To Play Billie Holiday Day sat down for an interview with Tracy Smith for the upcoming edition of “CBS Sunday Morning”, and revealed that playing Holiday was an intense experience. “It’s life changing,” Day tells Smith in a preview of
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