How to Watch Andra Day’s Golden Globe-Nominated Performance in The United States vs. Billie Holiday

How to Watch Andra Day’s Golden Globe-Nominated Performance in The United States vs. Billie Holiday

She Knows-Entertainment·2021-02-27 14:00

Calling all Billie Holiday fans, there’s a brand new movie, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, premiering today on Hulu. If you love the singer’s music, you won’t want to pass up this opportunity to learn more about her life, which was tragically cut short.

The film touches on the painful childhood of Holiday (played by Andra Day), but mainly chronicles the tail end of the iconic Strange Fruit singer’s life, when she was targeted by the FBI. Federal Bureau of Narcotics chief Harry Anslinger (Garrett Hedlund) is obsessed with Holiday, mostly because of her song “Strange Fruit,” which is about lynching in the south. Anslinger hates “Strange Fruit,” thinks jazz is “the devil’s music,” and ultimately uses Holiday’s addiction to heroin as the cover to dog her every step. He even assigns an undercover agent, Jimmy Fletcher (Trevante Rhodes), to bring Holiday down.

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