Angela Bassett responds to Whitney biopic criticism
By Sam Rigby
Angela Bassett has responded to criticism of her upcoming Whitney Houston biopic.
Bassett – who starred alongside Houston in Waiting to Exhale in 1995 – will make her directorial debut with Lifetime TV movie.
Houston’s mother, Cissy, recently hit out at the project, saying that nobody involved “knew Whitney or anything about her relationship with Bobby [Brown]” – read more here.
However, Bassett told HuffPostLive: “I did spend a little time [with] her, but to know her intimately, intimately – I mean, who does but the person and the Lord they serve? Who knows a person?
“But I know a little about being in the spotlight, a little about celebrity and its demands, a little about trying to find a mate and the support that’s needed in your industry – mine being acting, hers [the] music industry.
“I know about being a woman, about being a black woman that came up in a little hometown… and yet you are able to become a success because of this God-given gift or talent. So I know a little bit about what it might have been like,” she added.
Former America’s Next Top Model contestant Yaya DaCosta will play the late singer in the movie – take a look at a picture of her in the role here.