The Golden Globe winner went through a rigid and almost damaging method acting transformation to slip into Billie Holiday's mindset. Andra Day took up smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, and forcibly dropped a whopping 39 pounds all to become the jazz icon.
Day told The Source, "I thought I was gonna retire after this movie from acting because I thought, 'This s*** is too deep.' I've always loved actors and always had respect for them, but now I have a whole new respect for them and how deep they have to go."
Despite the intensity of the experience, Day told People she'd likely act again if the part is right. "The reality is, if I'm agreeing to do roles, it has to grab me, the way Billie grabbed me," she explained. "And I don't mean like being intrigued, meaning my spirit has to be sort of be called out to it. Because that's really what Billie was."
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