What Happened Between Angela Bassett And Jamie Lee Curtis?
Many folks were rooting for Angela Bassett to win 2023's Oscar for Best Supporting Actress following her moving performance in Wakanda Forever. However, the award went to "everyone's favorite nepo baby", Jamie Lee Curtis — in spite of to start with struggling to understand the script for the history-making Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Fans are divided in regards to the choice. Some think the Halloween big name did not deserve the win whilst others really feel just like the American Horror Story alum reacted like a "sore loser." Here's what in reality happened between Bassett and Curtis.
Angela Bassett On Being 'Robbed' Of An Oscar In 1994
There's a explanation why Bassett was once dissatisfied she did not win that Oscar. Back in 1994, everybody concept she was "robbed" when she didn't win an Oscar for Best Actress for playing Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It. But in an interview forward of the ceremony this year, she stated that she's made peace with it.
"Of course, in the moment you're hoping and praying and wishing [you'll win]," she admitted to Gayle King on CBS Mornings. "But I never - I don't walk away thinking 'I've been robbed.' That's too negative of an emotion to carry with me for the rest of my life. I choose to believe there was a reason why it didn't happen."
In some other recent interview with The New Yorker, the MCU famous person stated that if everybody knew how exhausting she labored for that position, "you would not say anything negative to me about anything!" She recalled "working out, getting up at 5 a.m." and eating "standing up, just so frazzled on black coffee, plain chicken breasts, white potatoes, and green beans."
"That's all that I ate during that time. They would still say, 'Tina has a high butt. You have a low butt,'" she continued, noting that it only made her stronger back then.
"I just remember thinking, You might lose a battle, but we're trying to win a war. I would come home, put in the CD, and listen to her [Turner's] songs until I fell asleep. I would study each and every detail within a phrase, or half a phrase. [She sings the opening of A Fool in Love]. 'Ohhhh! There'd something on my mind . . . .' I would just study the 'Oh' to get it perfectly right."
Jamie Lee Curtis On Her First Oscar Win
Curtis got so emotional onstage when she used to be receiving her first-ever Oscar. "I know it looks like I'm standing up here by myself, but I am not. I am hundreds of people," she stated all through her speech, crediting Everything Everywhere's solid and workforce. "We just won an Oscar!"
She mentioned her folks, past due actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis who would have been "incredibly proud" of her. "My mother and my father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories. I just won an Oscar," she said.
The Freaky Friday star has prior to now addressed the "nepo baby" labels back in the SAG Awards in February 2023. During her acceptance speech, she advised the target market: "I know you look at me and think 'nepo baby,' that's why she's there, and I totally get it/ But the truth of the matter is I'm 64 years old, and this is just amazing."
As of this writing, neither Curtis nor Bassett has made a observation concerning the backlash on that viral Oscars second.
Inside Angela Bassett's 'Sore Loser' Reaction To Jamie Lee Curtis' Oscar Win
While waiting for the announcement, the cameras were centered on the 5 nominees for Best Supporting Actress: Bassett, Curtis, Stephanie Hsu, Hong Chau, and Kerry Condon. When presenters, Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur referred to as Curtis' title, she regarded so surprised and was observed pronouncing, "Oh, shut up." Meanwhile, Bassett did not look as overjoyed as the other nominees.
"Angela Bassett's reaction to Jamie Lee Curtis' name being called…you can tell how much that Oscar would have meant to her," tweeted Buzzfeed's Deputy Editorial Director, Spencer Althouse. "She is, was, and always will be incredible. I better see her on that stage SOON."
In Piers Morgan's "uncensored Oscars awards" piece for the New York Post, the controversial broadcaster criticized Bassett for taking a look "like she was glugging a vinegar bottle when she heard she'd lost the Best Supporting Actress to Jamie Lee Curtis." He added that her "abject failure to even pretend to be gracious wasn't the best ad for her acting skills."
Although a lot of other folks believe Morgan's opinion, many defended the actress for expressing her feelings at the moment. "It's amazing how some people look at Angela Bassett in this picture and see 'sore loser,'" one stated. "I look at the picture and see hurt and disappointment. And it's ok to express that in the moment. #StopJudging."
Another fan identified that "people are saying Angela Bassett's reaction makes her [a] sore loser but no one is talking about Kerry Condon has to catching herself from saying WTF."
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