Angela Bassett "if you want it you can get it..." Notorious

BlackTree TVs Own Jamaal Finkley sits down and talks with Actress Angela Bassett to talk about her powerful role as Voletta Wallace in the new movie Notorious, a biopic about the life of rapper Christopher Wallace known popularly by his stage name The Notorious B.I.G (Biggie Smalls).




'Notorious' Actress Angela Bassett Says Biggie's Mom Is 'Fascinating'
'I have seen a great deal of life worth living despite a major tragedy,' actress says of Voletta Wallace.
By Shaheem Reid

Angela Bassett says the kinship that grew between her and the Notorious B.I.G.'s mom, Voletta Wallace, was that of two girlfriends. Wallace handpicked Bassett to play her in the Biggie biopic "Notorious," due January 16.

"I spoke to her on the phone," Mrs. Wallace said of her first interaction with Bassett. "I was out in California visiting my grandson. We had the opportunity to meet. I was over at [Faith Evans' house when Angela] came over. We sat and had dinner and had a long talk."


One of the most challenging aspects of playing Wallace was getting down the Jamaican accent, Bassett said. "It took awhile," the actress admitted. "Some of it, I had to work on it, get it later."

"Certain parts of the script, I taped my voice, and I guess that's how she got my accent," Wallace said. "They sent me tapes, I sent her tapes. And I was on the set every day. So there was not a time when she said, 'Oh, Mrs. Wallace, how was that?' She didn't have to do that. We had lunch together a lot. We had breakfast one morning. We'd just chat, woman to woman, mother to mother. We had a nice rapport together."

Bassett says having Wallace watch her every day made her a little nervous, but she was also reassured. "It can be a little intimidating, because you hope you're getting it right," she said. "You hope you're meeting their standards. We all have a way of seeing ourselves, the truth of it as we wish it were. Some of us are real honest with ourselves. Some of us embellish it. Mrs. Wallace is a straight shooter. Any question I had, I could go right to her. Lean into it. It was like girlfriends.


"She's a major part of the reason," Bassett added about why she chose to appear in the film. "Of course Biggie. It's a story about him, first and foremost. A major force in the hip-hop genre. One of the emissaries, gone too soon. He's one of the major bright lights in that arena. The type of person [Mrs. Wallace is], she is just fascinating to me. Her strength, her vulnerability, her ability to still laugh every day. To be supportive, to be on the set. I have seen a great deal of life worth living despite a major tragedy. That's a lesson each of us can take in some measure — large and small — with us into the issues we have to deal with day to day in our lives."

(story from: http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1601426/story.jhtml)



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[dknows2]

How is she the most overrated? You rarely hear anything about Angela Bassett. It's not like we even get to see her in one film a year. Could it be that you just don't like her???

[ansel617]

BEST MOVIE EVER!

[bluemdrapperbaby]

i guess its because im one but she sounds like a poet

[dosheanj]

Angela shows modesty at the end of clip.

[MMA3013]

Angela Bassett is one FINE ass milf :D

[sexycatalicious]

the interviewer is not ready for this level of work.. he needs more developement.

[strong1235]

You can still see those amazing muscles, just now with a bit of fat over them.

[iiLuvvPatriickx3]

@SherRoyal this movie was good. But i know what you mean when you say were entitled to our own opinion . But i dont see nothing wrong with this movie they portrayed the parts well they played the people real good . If Kim was to really play the role the movie would be trash .

[TheMienerite]

Angela talk very well. i love her voice

[TheTigerTy2]

is there any other ppl who voice sounds like hers?? if so message me there name

[DCfan6767]

She is the ideal woman!

[kennylondon123]

Miss Bassett is such a well spoken woman..so elegant,discrete and calm in her tone of conversation..really love listening to her talk..a woman should to learn to talk like this..!!!!