Whitney Houston biopic I want to dance with someone it’s littered with stunning recreations of the singer’s performances throughout her lifetime. From getting signed in the early ’80s to her iconic performance as “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the 1991 Super Bowl, Naomi Ackie has clearly worked hard behind the scenes to become “The Voice.” but there’s one scene in particular that took him a few months less than a year to prepare for.
When Gossipify spoke to Naomi Ackie about her latest film, we discussed the ending of I want to dance with someone. He asked the actress to recreate Whitney Houston’s performance at the 1994 AMAs, which was a medley of three songs (“I Loves You, Porgy,” “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” and “I Have Nothing “). performed in Houston itself she won eight awards, including “Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist”. Ackie had this to say about nailing that scene:
It took two days to film. In fact, when I read it in the script, it was the first thing I saw on YouTube. And I’ve been practicing this sequence for about eight months. And some of it was just me looking at it over and over, but I was also working with my movement coach Polly Bennett, who broke it down into little chunks. But it’s that thing you have to do, every moment I play the song and like I’m going through the motions in my head. I can still do it now. That’s what’s weird. never leave you so i can feel it and know what it is. It’s like he’s been training a lot. It took a second. But these two days were among the most beautiful experiences in this profession.
In the ten-minute sequence that culminates I want to dance with someonethe Film release in 2022 focuses entirely on Whitney Houston’s talents before the credits roll with one final number. Check out a comparison of some of the medleys at Youtube :
Naomi Ackie really enjoyed every moment of the medley! When you also mentioned Gossipify I want to dance with someoneKasi Lemmons director, who previously helmed the Harriet Tubman biopic titled Harrietshared the importance of this scene as a director, saying this:
I always liked Anthony finishing his script with the medley. So that was one of my favorite things. I think I spent a lot of time. What I really wanted to nail was all these individual love stories, but all of the relationships in his life, his work relationships, his family, his friends and his mistresses, but also this relationship with the public. I really wanted to clarify that this is also a love story between Whitney and the audience. And so it all comes together. You see that throughout the movie, but it really comes together in the medley and how to use the camera to include the emotion of the audience and then work around that and really feel this back and forth and this relationship and something like that. the movement of how sometimes we are so inspired to stand up and what makes you cry and capture that tension and love between her and the audience.
I want to dance with someone was written by Anthony McCarten, who wrote previously Bohemian Rhapsody, among other biographies. And like her film Queen of Hers, this film decided to end the script with a sequence that recreates a great stage performance by Whitney Houston. The sequence follows the film spanning three decades of Houston’s career (something Naomi Ackie was afraid to do ). And with the scene, Houston’s memory ends as a tribute rather than the tragedy that befell her when she died at the age of 48 in 2012 after being found unconscious in her suite at the Beverly Hilton. .
As Lemmons shares, he truly feels that the final sequence captures the relationship Houston had with his audience, as well as with his family and friends, that the entire film seeks to portray. among them be one same-sex relationship with Robyn Crawford early in his life, as well as his working relationship with record producer Clive Davis, played by Stanley Tucci in the movie.
New biopic focusing on a black musician met mixed reviews from critics . You can decide for yourself like Naomi Ackie and I want to dance with someone overall, it does now with a Whitney Houston tribute in theaters.
Source: Cinemablend
