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Angela Bassett and Jamie Lee Curtis are making it clear, they loved Ariana DeBose’s rap about the nominated women at last weekend’s BAFTA Awards, which went viral and brought out vocal haters.
The Oscar-winning «West Side Story» actress rapped about «Black Panther: Wakanda Forever» star Bassett, singing «Angela Bassett did the thing.»
«It want to let everyone know who can hear the sound of my voice that I Ioved it and appreciated it,» Bassett told USA TODAY on the Screen Actors Guild red carpet Sunday.
She loved it so much, that when accepting the NAACP Image Award for entertainer of the year on Saturday, Bassett made a point of beginning her speech with the same line: “I guess Angela Bassett did the thing!”
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Bassett said the speech was her way of helping to turn the public sentiment about the performance.
«In the beginning, it was looking one way,» Bassett said.
