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"Jennifer Hudson has described her guest starring role in Smash as the &amp;quot;perfect&amp;quot; career opportunity. The Oscar winner will appear in Smash&amp;#039;s second season as a Broadway star who has an impact on the careers of Ivy (Megan Hilty) and Karen (Katharine McPhee). Hudson spoke about the role in a new interview with The AP, revealing that she is very excited to be a guest star on the NBC series. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s just the perfect opportunity. It&amp;#039;s gonna be challenging, and I&amp;#039;m a little bit intimidated to play this big Broadway star,&amp;quot; she admitted. She added: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s gonna be a great experience [and] I can&amp;#039;t wait to get started!&amp;quot; Andy Mientus recently joined the cast of Smash as well to play theatre actor Kyle. Smash will return to NBC in 2013 and airs on Sky Atlantic in the UK. Watch Jack Davenport discuss Smash with Digital Spy below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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