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13/11/2017
The singer and actress stars in new Netflix movie Mudbound in which she plays Florence Jackson, the wife and mother of a family of sharecroppers in the segregated Deep South.
Upon playing the role, she confessed that the role helped her to let go of her 'business image' and channel her upset from the divorce into Mary's character.
She is quoted as saying: "Mary J Blige the business, not the person, is the manufactured, material, vain person. So I had to shed her once I saw Florence's wardrobe and when I found out I couldn't wear any lace-fronts and I couldn't get a perm and I couldn't wear lashes and I couldn't wear nails, I had to shed the manufactured, business Mary.
"Once I shed her it was easy for Mary to say, 'You know what? I'm going to give every piece of darkness that I'm dealing with right now, because I have some challenges in my life as well, so I'm going to give you all of this heaviness and all of this sadness and insecurity and feeling inferior because this is what you've been told in this bad situation and I'm going to give it to you.'
"'But I'm also going to give you Mary's strength that she gained, so you can have all these different things.' So once I committed to Florence, Florence started saving Mary's life."
She continued: "What I was channelling was all of the sadness that I was feeling. I'm in the middle of a divorce now and during that time I wasn't divorced yet, I just was in the middle of 'something's wrong and I just can't prove what's wrong but I'm sad and I'm miserable and I've been sad and miserable for about five years now'.
"So I just gave that five years of misery to Florence. I said 'I've got to survive this thing', because it was too heavy, so I gave all that to Florence."
"It helped and it's helping," she explained. "I'm still in the process of all this madness that I'm in and this movie is really helping me be happy because it's another chapter, it's a new chapter and I'm leaving this one behind.
"For me it was cathartic, it was therapeutic, because I was able to give so much of my heaviness to Florence, it was kind of a load off."
Blige said it was while she was filming on location in Louisiana that her marriage to manager Kendu Isaacs was in trouble. In July 2016, she cited irreconcilable differences as grounds for divorce.
(JP/LM)
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Movie Helped Mary J Blige Through Divorce
Mary J Blige has admitted that her latest acting role helped her to get through her ongoing divorce from Kendu Isaacs.The singer and actress stars in new Netflix movie Mudbound in which she plays Florence Jackson, the wife and mother of a family of sharecroppers in the segregated Deep South.
Upon playing the role, she confessed that the role helped her to let go of her 'business image' and channel her upset from the divorce into Mary's character.
She is quoted as saying: "Mary J Blige the business, not the person, is the manufactured, material, vain person. So I had to shed her once I saw Florence's wardrobe and when I found out I couldn't wear any lace-fronts and I couldn't get a perm and I couldn't wear lashes and I couldn't wear nails, I had to shed the manufactured, business Mary.
"Once I shed her it was easy for Mary to say, 'You know what? I'm going to give every piece of darkness that I'm dealing with right now, because I have some challenges in my life as well, so I'm going to give you all of this heaviness and all of this sadness and insecurity and feeling inferior because this is what you've been told in this bad situation and I'm going to give it to you.'
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"'But I'm also going to give you Mary's strength that she gained, so you can have all these different things.' So once I committed to Florence, Florence started saving Mary's life."
She continued: "What I was channelling was all of the sadness that I was feeling. I'm in the middle of a divorce now and during that time I wasn't divorced yet, I just was in the middle of 'something's wrong and I just can't prove what's wrong but I'm sad and I'm miserable and I've been sad and miserable for about five years now'.
"So I just gave that five years of misery to Florence. I said 'I've got to survive this thing', because it was too heavy, so I gave all that to Florence."
"It helped and it's helping," she explained. "I'm still in the process of all this madness that I'm in and this movie is really helping me be happy because it's another chapter, it's a new chapter and I'm leaving this one behind.
"For me it was cathartic, it was therapeutic, because I was able to give so much of my heaviness to Florence, it was kind of a load off."
Blige said it was while she was filming on location in Louisiana that her marriage to manager Kendu Isaacs was in trouble. In July 2016, she cited irreconcilable differences as grounds for divorce.
(JP/LM)
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