Jennifer Hudson, Terrence Howard to Play Nelson & Winnie Mandela

Jennifer Hudson and Terrence Howard will (hopefully) play the Mandelas in a biopic about their lives and story, but apparently, there seems to be some conflict on Mandela’s side. According to Page Six,Producer Andre Pieterse — having received a letter from Winnie’s lawyers — said the “well-researched” screenplay would be made “without any influence from any of the main characters.”

Some South Africans seem to be “unimpressed” w/ these two actors. According to the Creative Workers ‘Union President Mabutho “Kid” Sithole,”We are unapologetically unimpressed for a lot of reasons. But mainly we are asking one question: If we keep importing people to portray roles of our icons, when are we going to have our creative work develop? When will we see another Charlize [Theron] or a Zakes Mokae? They said they are looking for box-office success with these actors, but look at Sarafina with Whoopi Goldberg and Cry Freedom with Denzel Washington. It’s no guarantee for a box-office smash.” Here for full story. Photo Credit.

(((Sithole does have a valid point.)))