What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
Directed by Brian Gibson
Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husband Ike.
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Bassett, a strong actress, certainly knows something about depicting the life of a musical artist, scoring an Oscar nomination herself for playing Tina Turner in “What’s Love Got to Do With It.”
It’s also an unsurprising choice for Bassett’s directorial debut, given her breakthrough performance in What’s Love Got To Do With It, one among many music biopics with the unenviable task of adjudicating the degree to which an artist’s personal life and professional accomplishments intersected.
Bassett knows this terrain very well from having acted in the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got to Do With It? — and probably from having been a celebrity for more than 20 years and getting to know other stars, including Houston, with whom she appeared with in Waiting to Exhale.
Other inspired casting in smaller parts include Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker (“The King of Scotland”) as T’Challa’s uncle, the ever radiant Angela Bassett (Oscar nominee for “What’s Love Got to Do with It”) as T’Challa’s mom and current Oscar contender Daniel Kaluuya (“Get Out”) as a high member of Wakandan aristocracy and counsel to T’Challa.