Angela Bassett is having a great week. She has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress at both the Critics Choice Awards and the Golden Globes for her role as Queen Ramonda in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. It only adds to the buzz that she will also land her second career Oscar nomination for reprising the part in the Ryan Coogler sequel, in which she takes on new emotional heft with the loss of the Queen’s son King T’Challa as well as the beloved actor who played him, Chadwick Boseman. Of course, that is topic No. 1 as she joins the Deadline video series The Actor’s Side for this week’s episode.
Bassett is no stranger to awards, having won a Golden Globe, a SAG Award and seven Image Awards, as well as seven Emmy nominations and that Oscar nom as Tina Turner in What’s Love Got To Do With It?
We also talk about playing Tina, as well as the long list of real-life icons she has brought to life on the screen like Betty Shabazz in Malcolm X; Violetta Wallace, the mother of Biggie Smalls; Rosa Parks; Coretta Scott King; Katherine Jackson; and even as the voice of Michelle Obama in a Simpsons episode. We also talk about her television work that includes numerous iterations and characters for American Horror Story, as well as her current Fox hit 9-1-1, for which she is also a producer.
Lots to discuss, so to watch our conversation and get the “actor’s side” from Angela Bassett click on the video above.
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