# @variety on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdbtUCqkgge
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70608261-variety-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-18T15:00:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Variety (@Variety) — https://gondola.cc/Variety

## Caption

Jennifer Hudson is changing.

#JenniferHudson’s transformation might not be as dramatic as the one Effie White sings about in the second act of “Dreamgirls,” but the EGOT winner is beginning what she describes as her “next chapter.”

Part of that next chapter means using her own voice. As Hudson works on original music, she’s holding close advice from Aretha Franklin and Carole King to “use your voice.” She’s also returning to “Dreamgirls,” this time as a producer of the upcoming Broadway revival and helping search for the next Effie White.

Plus, Hudson reveals how she personally asked Tom Cruise to come on “The Jennifer Hudson Show” and says he agreed to enter the Spirit Tunnel so fast “it made my head spin.”

Read the full cover story at the link in bio.

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