Jennifer Hudson To Play Mandela’s Wife

Nelson Mandela’s former wife is getting a bio-pic, and Jennifer Hudson will star.

“Winnie” will begin filming May 30 in South Africa. The South African filmmaker Darrell J. Roodt will direct the script written by Andre Pieterse, Paul L. Johnson, and Roodt.

According to the writers, Mandela’s entire story will be fair game for the docu-drama, from her stuggles while Nelson Mandela was imprisoned during the country’s Apartheid rule, to her violent rhetoric and endorsements of necklacing (dousing tires with gasoline and setting them around peoples’ necks to burn).