14 DAY TRIAL // Angela Bassett is producing a movie for Lifetime about the life and the career of her very good friend Whitney Houston, and the moment confirmation of the biopic came, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Whitney’s daughter with Bobby Brown, was already campaigning for the lead.
The way Bobbi Kristina (aka Krissi) saw things, there was absolutely no better person to play her late mother than her, her daughter. Bobbi has also flirted with acting and is now working towards launching a singing career as well, so she probably thought this too would recommend her as the ideal Lifetime Whitney.
Clearly, Bassett isn’t interested in the idea because, as she explains in a recent interview, Krissi isn’t really that much of an actress. Yaya DaCosta has been chosen for the leading part instead.
As Bassett puts it, she didn’t even consider casting Krissi as a viable option – and she has a variety of reasons to back that up. “One being that she’s not an actress. I know she’s acted here and there. I know she’s been on their family’s reality show, but she’s not an actress and acting is a craft,” she says.
“It’s an attempt to illuminate the complexities of human behavior and life,” Bassett says of the film, as cited by Black America Web. “It’s more than just saying lines and turning the light on. You have to drive the story — there’s a technical aspect.”
It didn’t take Krissi long to respond to this: as far as she’s concerned, Angela can take her technical aspect and put it in the place where the sun don’t shine, as the saying goes. Clearly, she’s so furious at having been left out that she proves just how unprofessional she can be by suggesting that Bassett is a man.
In the long run, not casting her in the movie was a good choice.
“Ha MsAng ‘bassketcase’ has such a damn nerve. My lord, at least the world doesn’t mistake me for the wrong sex..she has #XtraEequipment,” she writes on Twitter. “When I win my first Grammy or Oscar, *shrugs* hmm whichever comes 1st, I’ll be sure 2shout URname out [B-word]! hahUrTestResults=MAL. Lmao.”
The Lifetime biopic is being done without the Houston family consent, as they believe Whitney was simply “too big” to get the made-for-TV film treatment. Bassett has said in previous interviews that she hoped they would agree to be involved and was disappointed to hear they resisted the idea.
She also said that the biopic would not tackle the topic of Whitney’s death because the plan isn’t to drag that history back to light again, but to celebrate the work and career of an amazing woman and artist.