Angela Bassett tells PEOPLE about filming difficult scenes in the Tina Turner biopic 'What's Love Got to Do with It' and reflects on her two Oscar nominations which came almost 30 years apart
Andrea Mandell is the Senior Editor of Entertainment Projects at PEOPLE Magazine. She joined the brand in 2022 and helps lead special projects, film coverage, festivals, awards and more."It's not playtime or acting. You assess a part of your spirit in the portrayal when you really connect," Bassett, 65, says in her recent in December 2007, were married in 1962, divorcing 16 years later.
"I was newbie on the scene, I don't have so much influence or say," she recalls. "But I had an advocate who would join me by my side and we would say, in a firm and delicate way, 'We got it.'" Bassett particularly remembers filming a harrowing scene in the movie when Ike chokes Tina, pushing her up against a fish tank and raping her. "To portray the particular violence of rape was just emotionally draining and would be for anyone," says Bassett.
Angela Bassett, second from right, with husband Courtney B. Vance, far right, and their twins Slater Vance, left, and Bronwyn Vance.“She’ll never toot her own horn,” he says. “The honorary Oscar was a wonderful night, but I flashed back to 30 years ago when they didn’t call her name, and then when they didn’t call her name last March. This was an opportunity for her to stand up there. A lot of people saw it, but not the billion people that would see it at the Oscars.
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