Andra Day.Photo: Myriam Santos; Courtesy HFPA
Andra Dayis stuffing her face — with zero regrets!
“I’ve been on a diet for three years for this movie role, to drop the weight and everything, so there’s cake outside … we just got to eat so much food,” said Day, 36. “We’re very hungry. Me, I’m very hungry.”
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“I basically abused my body for a long time,” Day said duringVariety’s Actors on ActorswithLeslie Odom Jr.last month. “I’m joking and not really joking.”
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Billie Holiday; Andra Day.Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; Takashi Seida/Paramount Pictures/Hulu
She continued, “I put my family through it; I put myself through it. Iwent from 163 pounds to 124 pounds. I would talk like her and I don’t drink or smoke, but I started smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol.”
“Not that I recommend people do this; I just was desperate because this is my first role,” Day insisted. “I just asked God to give me all of the pain and trauma. I asked Him to give me her pain and give me her trauma.”
“To all the incredible nominees. I’m in the presence of giants. … You inspire me so much. To the amazing, transformative, dynamic Billie Holiday. She transformed me with this role, with her presence, with her spirit. Thanks to everybody who was a part of this incredible project,” Day said in her acceptance speech.
Andra Day.
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Also in the press room, Day touched on being only the second Black actress to ever take home the Golden Globe for best actress in a motion picture – drama, afterWhoopi GoldbergforThe Color Purple35 years ago.
“The thing that I take [more] than anything is the strength of a Black woman … it’s one of the things I’m so grateful for [with] this win,” she said. “But to know that the last person who won this award was [in]The Color Purpleis so not representative of how many Black women’s stories have been told sensationally and need to be told.”
“And amazing, talented actresses who do this,” Day continued. “I go, ‘Who the hell else has meatier roles and meatier stories than Black women,’ you know? … [Billie Holiday is] the godmother of civil rights, and I take that with me.”
Day also thanked her parents, who celebrated her win along with members of her team.
“My mother and father were in the room with me, which makes me just so happy because they put up with me for so long,” she joked.
The 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards aired live on NBC from 8 to 11 p.m. ET./5 to 8 p.m. PT.
source: people.com
