Angela Bassett just shared the last words of Tina Turner
The actor played the legendary Queen of Rock 'N' Roll in a 1993 biopic.
It seemed to live forever, but on May 24, Music icon Tina Turner Died at 83 . "Tina Turner, the" Queen of Rock & Roll "died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland," said her family in a statement Rolling stone . "With her, the world loses a music legend and a model."
Turner's career has produced career successes like "Proud Mary", "Private Dancer", "The Best", and James Bond's song "Goldneye". One of the best -selling artists of all time, she won Eight Grammys and a life of life production. Turner also appeared in films like Tommy And Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome , the latter presented his successful single "We Not’t need another hero". AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
The incredible story of Turner inspired countless artists who came after her - and her life was also immortalized on stage and on the screen. Musical comedy Tina deserved Adrienne Warren A Tony price in the title role, while Angela Bassett Received a Oscar appointment To play Turner in the 1993 biopic What has love to do with that .
The film was based on the Memoirs of Turner in 1986 Me, Tina And tells the abuse she had to face her wedding IKE Turner , played by Laurence Fishburne . What has love to do with that is ultimately a story of Turner's survival, and how she was able to recover her career after her divorce. In his review for the Orlando Sentinel (via Rotten tomatoes ), critical Jay Boyar wrote: "Angela Bassett is a wonderfully sympathetic presence on the screen that could have a great career ahead of it."
For Time "100 the 100 most influential people of 2023", "published last month, Turner wrote a tribute in Bassett. "Angela, the first time we met, you haven't looked, toned or moved like me - who came later after working so hard to get there," recalls the singer. "But even then, I could see that the young woman standing in front of me had strength, determination and great dreams, just like me."
Turner continued: "It is your gift, becoming your character with conviction, truth, dignity and thanks, even when it is painful, and takes everything you have and more. It is not only to act, It's being. Whether you are Tina Turner or the Wakanda Queen, we believe in you because you believe in you. "
Now, following a much sadder opportunity, Bassett was able to offer His own tribute to Turner.
In a declaration obtained by The Hollywood Reporter , the actor said: "How do we say goodbye to a woman who had her pain and trauma and used it as a way to help change the world? Thanks to his courage to tell his story, his commitment to Keeping the course in your life, regardless of sacrifice and determination to cut a rock and roll space for itself and for others that resemble it, Tina Turner has shown others who lived in fear to How much a bright future filled with love, compassion and freedom should look like. "
Closing his declaration, Bassett returned to what Turner had written about her for her Time , sharing the "last words" which she received from the emblematic interpreter.
"His last words for me - for me - you have been imitated. Instead, you have reached your soul, you have found your inner Tina and you have shown her to the world." I will hold these words near my heart for the rest of my days, "said Bassett." I am honored to have known Tina Turner. I am humiliated to having helped him to show him the world. So, while we mourn the loss of this voice and this emblematic presence, it gave us more than what we could have ever asked. She. gave us all his self. And Tina Turner is a gift that will always be "simply the best". Angels, sing you at your rest ... Queen. ""