Jennifer Hudson talks playing Winnie Mandela in biopic

Jennifer Hudson has achieved so much over the course of her relatively short time in the entertainment business — an Oscar win, gold-selling albums — that it’s hard to believe she could be intimidated by something as seemingly trivial as a movie role.

But the 31-year-old superstar insists she was just that when it came to playing the lead role in “Winnie Mandela,” a biopic about Nelson Mandela’s famous ex-wife.

amNewYork spoke with Hudson about the film, which opens Friday.