There's Oscar talk for Mo'nique

December 6, 2009 at 5:57AM

There's Oscar talk for Mo'nique, as best supporting actress for portraying the mother of "Precious." If you want to hear Mo'nique talk, there's her eponymous show weeknights on BET. To us, she talked about her favorite singer, Jill Scott.

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"We're friends. And she talks like she sings. So she has a very calming aura about her. So when I put her music on, baby, it's just like, 'OK, relaxing time. Yeah. Thank you, baby.'"

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