Ultimately, the role went to Keith Robinson. Yvette Nicole Brown Tells Jennifer Hudson She Auditioned for Effie in 'Dreamgirls' Before Her “I was so excited for what was getting ready to happen. [I] ...

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referencing Hudson’s Academy Award-winning performance as Effie White. Hudson, visibly stunned, responded, “Are you talking about Dreamgirls? Wait, you were going to be in Dreamgirls?” ...

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When Early flames out, Curtis makes the Dreamettes into headliners as the Dreams, but not before demoting their hefty big-voiced lead singer, Effie White, and putting the softer-voiced looker ...

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Effie is initially the lead singer ... Admittedly, Hudson didn’t know much about Dreamgirls either, a story loosely based on The Supremes. After her stint on American Idol in 2004, “it ...