Why is that?īecause I want you to fall into the world of Whitney and Bobby. You cast Yaya DaCosta as Whitney-and you went with a cast of newcomers for this film as opposed to more established actors. She has been tagged one of Hollywood’s new “it girls” by many, including Lynn Hirschberg who featured her on the cover of W Magazine in September, 2010.ĭirector Angela Bassett talked at length about the project in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, including her decision to cast Yaya and other relative newcomers in the film: She has portrayed a range of characters, from Danny Glover’s frail teenage daughter in John Sayles’ Honeydripper, to Mark Ruffalo’s voluptuous lover in Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right. In 2008, she made her Off-Broadway debut in “The First Breeze of Summer” at The Signature Theater, for which she garnered rave reviews and won the Vivian Robinson/AUDELCO Recognition Award for Excellence in Black Theater. She continued to perform in school shows throughout high school and college and in 2005, made her feature film debut in Take the Lead. She got her first acting gig at the age of eleven when her junior high school drama teacher, Ann Willis Ratray, encouraged her to audition for educational films. Yaya Alafia was born and raised in New York City along with her sister and two brothers. Throughout it all, difficulties followed the superstar couple while they dealt with the overwhelming rewards and consequences of the fame and fortune created by Whitney’s meteoric rise that would soon overshadow them both.Īlthough Yaya DaCosta got her first national exposure on America’s Next Top Model, where she finished as the Season 3 runner-up in 2003, she is now first and foremost an actress with quite the impressive resume. Scheduled for a 2015 world premiere, Whitney Houston chronicles the headline-making relationship between the iconic singer, actress, producer and model, and singer, songwriter Bobby Brown - from the time they first met at the very height of their celebrity, to their courtship and tumultuous marriage. The Lifetime movie, which has the working title Whitney Houston (although IMDB has it listed as I Will Always Love You: The Whitney Houston Story), is directed by Whitney’s Waiting to Exhale co-star Angela Bassett and is set to debut some time in 2015.
#WHITNEY HOUSTON LIFETIME MOVIE UPDATE#
UPDATE – Click here to see the first photo of actor Arlen Escarpeta as Bobby Brown!
Here are side-by-side photos for comparison:
#WHITNEY HOUSTON LIFETIME MOVIE MOVIE#
We have our first look at former America’s Next Top Model runner-up Yaya DaCosta as Whitney Houston in the Lifetime movie about the singer! In the photo, Yaya recreates the iconic photo used on the cover of the singer’s 1990 album Whitney.
0 kommentar(er)
