“That’s what you come to do.
D. Stevens
Angela Bassettis reflecting on a powerful experience she had while watching one of her most iconic movies.
“I remember a young man in our audience, he said, ‘No!
Laurence Fishburne as Ike Turner and Angela Bassett as Tina Turner in ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It’.Credit:D. Stevens
The actress said that witnessing that viewer’s visceral reaction to the scene had a profound impact on her.
“I stopped looking at the screen,” she said.
“I’m looking at him and that’s what you come to do.
Angela Bassett.Bruce Glikas/WireImage
Whichever way the mob flops.”
“I’m no singer, now,” the actress said in the documentary.
“I’m no singer.
I’m a hell of a lip-syncer.
Sorta tried to embody her essence.
The movement, the dance, the physicality, the emotion of this beautiful, complex woman.”
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