Whitney Houston and Robyn Crawford's characters in the biopic(Actress Yaya Dacosta and Yolanda Ross)
Hollywood's sweetheart, Angela Bassett has made it clear that her directorial debut for a Lifetime Network feature film about the life, times and relationship struggles of her dear friend and former colleague, Whitney Houston will cover taboo subjects the late singer never addressed publicly. Her turbulent relationship with singer, Bobby Brown as well as her drug use, but will Lifetime cover a lesbian relationship?....You might have to do your own seminar....lol!
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Whitney Houston and Angela Basset
According to The Wrap, the film will hint, if not address a relationship Houston had with her long time friend and personal assistant, Robyn Crawford. Actress Yolanda Ross, spoke to the publication about how she prepared to play the role with a lack of information about Houston alleged.
"There were maybe three or four pictures of Robyn that I could find, and production couldn't do much better---They found one tiny clip of her talking, just so I could get an idea"
Whitney Houston & Robyn Crawford
The biopic portrays Whitney as a woman who was naive about romantic love and who was perhaps never able to express herself due to her strict upbringing. Despite that the biopic doesn't go on to paint Houston in a romantic relationship with Crawford, but it does show Robyn in a battle with Houston's husband, Bobby Brown due to the affectionate nature of their relationship.
Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown
Ross continued to speak about she researched the nature of their relationship.
"It was taking what I could find out about their friendship and how long they knew each other, and that was it. So, I was just acting off emotions---What's on the page and what these two people in this particular situation, how they would be acting and reacting to each other"
In terms of whether Houston was in a same sex relationship, the actress did not want to speculate....
Yolanda Ross
"Whether or not it was more than that in terms of them being a couple, we can't say that because it was not confirmed. As the actor playing them, I hit all notes and felt all of them. I played it as somebody that loved another person"
As earlier reported, Bassett spoke out about Whitney Houston's demons with drugs and how she wanted to bring that to Houston's legacy for the biopic....
"Each of us has something that can overtake us, so you have to put boundaries. No one is perfect. If you don't work on some issues that we all have---you can't allow exposure of everything in the world. Seeing, hearing, and doing whatever will affect you. Unfortunately, drugs is [sic] one of those things. You think you can dabble and play with it until it gets a hold".
The biopic will premiere on January 17th, 2015 at 8pm. We will definitely be watching!
Credit~Inquisitr
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