Angela Bassett forever!
The star won Best Supporting Actress at the Critics’ Choice Awards 2023 on Sunday night. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
The other nominee is Jesse Buckley (women’s story), Kelly Condon (Inishelin’s Banshee), Jamie Lee Curtis (All at once, anywhere), Stephanie Hsu (All at once, anywhere) and Janelle Monae (Glass Onion: A Knife Out Mystery).
Near the end of her acceptance speech, Bassett, 64, thanked fans and several members of the “Disney and Marvel family,” including her. Wakanda Forever Director/co-writer Ryan Coogler said he was “proud of the work we did” on both the sequel and the 2018 predecessor. black panther.
She also starred as King T’Challa in her first film, telling the late Chadwick Boseman, who passed away in 2020 after a four-year battle with cancer, “For your love and the light that surrounds us. To,” he expressed his gratitude.
“We couldn’t have made history without you, then and now.”
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Bassett, who won Best Supporting Actress at Tuesday’s Golden Globe Awards, opened her speech by recalling the moment she “fallen in love with acting when I saw James Earl Jones on a school trip to Washington, D.C.”Production of mouse and human at the Kennedy Center. ”
“In that moment, I knew this was what I wanted to do. As I stirred in my seat as the actors pulled me into their story scene by scene, I felt like I was making people feel the same.” I wanted you to know,” she said.
And Bassett ‘didn’t know what the pass was going to be'[she] I got into drama school at Yale University,” he said, “I had no idea what was reasonably possible,” and the “giants” of the industry that paved the way, i.e., “super-talented blacks like Ruby Dee and Sicily.” Thanks to the actresses “Tyson, Rosalind Cash, Diane Carroll”
“It was their extraordinary work that showed me that there was a place for me in the show business, especially at a time when black women weren’t represented in any significant way on television or on the big screen. But thank God for them,” she said.
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Bassett has previously opened hollywood reporter (Spoiler alert) Regarding the death of her character Queen Ramonda in the sequel, she said she “loved” the audience’s reaction to the moment.
“I love my friends. The audience was so touched by it. I’ve always heard, ‘I’m sad and angry.’ I was like, ‘Well, that’s how I felt,'” she said. I was like, “I wish I was there. It would be something to see. It would really be something to see and hear.” You didn’t? I couldn’t believe it.”
“Or another friend, college roommate: ‘I kept saying, they have heart-shaped herbs. Shuri will come up with something. She’ll be back. I kept it. I’ll be back. She’s going to cough,” Bassett said.
“They wanted to believe it wasn’t the end,” she added.
The 28th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards are now live on The CW.
