Angela Bassett

Ariana DeBose's opening number at the BAFTAs went viral for being camp. What was so funny about “Angela Bassett did the thing,” and did the BAFTA producers ...

That rap section in the middle, mentioning the women in the room, was because it’s been a great year for women in film, and we wanted to celebrate that. And here is a woman of color who is at the absolute top of her game. And she’s opening the BAFTAs with a song that said so much on so many levels.” However, the awkwardness of the performance is actually more intense when looked at through the diversity filter — the show would go on to have [solely white winners](https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/all-the-2023-bafta-winners-were-white.html). It’s the seriousness of a heartfelt tribute to the underappreciated women of film meeting a dedicated yet completely incorrect performance that makes this opening ever-more compelling to a Twitter audience that both lauds these queens and takes joy in unintended awkwardness. For one, DeBose’s performance is at its most confusing here, with her lack of breath leading to clipped syllables and an odd, almost melodic reading of the name “Angela Bassett.” Her sharp dance moves, specifically the waving of the finger, are equally compelling, if not necessarily right for the song. The songs she was singing are very familiar songs, the room was clapping, and people were sort of dancing to the music. Below, the BAFTAs opening performance, the response, and the response to the response. DeBose’s performance was a tribute to the nominated women and included covers of “Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves” by Aretha Franklin and Eurythmics and “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge. In her essay “Notes on Camp,” Susan Sontag writes that “Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is ‘too much.’” What DeBose gives is certainly intended to be serious, yes, and it is certainly too much. In between songs, DeBose took the time to do a post-Hamilton rap homage to the nominated women of the night — “Angela Bassett did the thing / Viola Davis, my Woman King.” It was special. Theater kids gave us the first season of Glee, they gave us an archetype to describe Anne Hathaway’s vibe, and they gave us Jan’s face crack after losing And so should the rest of humanity!

Angela Bassett dove to even greater depths in reprising her role as Queen Ramonda in Marvel sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

“Comb through the script to find out what her motives are, her intentions and objectives,” she says. There was a little bit of heart palpitation going on because I just didn’t think I’d have enough air to do it.” “So, to have another opportunity to revisit Wakanda — that land, that character — and to do it in a more significant way was very much welcomed.” “I was glued to my seat; ushers were picking up programmes and I was just crying.” “I really enjoyed Black Panther and that entire experience, and, of course, its global success,” says Bassett. “I literally was the last person in the theatre to leave,” says Bassett, Bafta- and Oscar-nominated for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, picking up the first acting nomination from either Academy for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The beloved veteran, a best supporting actress Oscar nominee 29 years after she was a best actress Oscar nominee for her portrayal of Tina Turner, ...

Indeed, after years of additional strong work in films like Forest Whitaker’s Waiting to Exhale in 1995, Kevin Rodney Sullivan’s How Stella Got Her Groove Back in 1998 and Doug Atchison’s Akeelah and the Bee in 2006, she is finally getting her due — and may finally take home an Oscar — for her portrayal in a blockbuster as, appropriately enough, a queen. She was nominated 29 years ago for the best actress Oscar for her portrayal of Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do with It, making her the only Black person nominated for the best actress Oscar in the 1990s, and she is nominated this year for the best supporting actress Oscar her portrayal of Queen Ramonda in [Black Panther: Wakanda Forever](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/black-panther-wakanda-forever/), making her only the fourth Black actress who has received more than one acting Oscar nomination, and the first person ever nominated for a performance in a Marvel movie. Without [her], there is no Halle Berry. Without [her], there is no Viola Davis. Over the course of a conversation at the Belmond El Encanto hotel in Santa Barbara, ahead of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s presentation to her of its Montecito Award, the 64-year-old reflected on her path from St. [Oscars 2023](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/oscars-2023/) [Feinberg Forecast: Post-Oscar Nominees Luncheon and Santa Barbara Film Fest, Pre-PGA and SAG Awards Update](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-oscar-nomination-predictions-nominees-luncheon-1235325587/) [Finn Wittrock](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/finn-wittrock/) [Blair Underwood, Finn Wittrock, Victoria Pedretti, Isha Blaaker Join Ava DuVernay’s ‘Caste’ Film Adaptation](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/blair-underwood-victoria-pedretti-ava-duvernay-caste-movie-1235330857/) [Sundance Film Festival Reviews](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/sundance-film-festival-reviews/) [‘Talk to Me’ Review: Mingling With the Spirit World Brings Bone-Chilling Shocks in Australian Horror Debut](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/talk-to-me-review-1235324674/) Petersburg, Florida, to the Yale School of Drama to Broadway to Hollywood; the early roles that established her as one of the top talents in the business, in John Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood in 1991, Spike Lee’s Malcolm X in 1992 and Brian Gibson’s aforementioned What’s Love Got to Do With It in 1993; and the ups and downs that followed over the next three decades. 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She’s the one who came in and did things Meryl Streep was doing, as a Black actress.” Of Bassett — who has also won two Golden Globe Awards, for the aforementioned two films, and has been nominated for seven Primetime Emmy Awards, for a variety of programs — Time film critic Richard Corliss wrote in 1998, “Some folks have it, some don’t. She animates and elevates her roles with fire, precision and suavity.” Film historian Donald Bogle said in 2002, “[She] very much reminds me of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, women who commanded your attention in a film even when their mouths were closed.” And Emmy-winning writer-actress Lena Waithe opined in 2017, “[She] is a freaking legend.

Oscar nominee Angela Bassett breaks down Queen Ramonda's powerful death scene in 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.'

"Maybe that was the point." In what can now be seen as a bit of foreshadowing, Queen Ramonda encourages Shuri after T'Challa's funeral to get in touch with her emotions — "Her spirit and her mind needs some tending to," Bassett says of Shuri — guiding her to "show people who you are," which "is not a vengeful, hateful person, she's a brilliant young woman who has everything ahead of her." "So it becomes like any other day — you want to do good work that day. "I'm enjoying the script, I can't wait to get to work, and then turn the page, and voila… "I'm getting CPR, and I don't make it. But it turns out she didn't even know her character's fate until she got to that page in the script — akin to her experience for Olympus Has Fallen.

Angela Bassett is sharing with fans how she manifested her role as Queen Ramonda in the hit 2022 Marvel movie, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”

So that was as close as I came to being in a comic book movie.” “So when this came, I was like, ‘Oh, wow, you know, something has come back around in a sort of way with this marvelous director. He tells the story that he went home and said, ‘what were you talking to Angela about?’ And grandma said ‘she wants to be in one of your movies.’ I don’t know if I told his grandmother that, but I’m glad she was my advocate.” And I went to see Creed, his second film, I went to the premiere of that. But for him, there was just something, you know just intriguing, magical and artistic about this filmmaker, about that work.” “And I would just sort of off the cuff say I want to play a queen.

Ariana DeBose's BAFTA rap has gone viral, thanks to the "Angela Bassett did the thing! Viola Davis, my Woman King!" lyric. Here's all the best memes and ...

[pic.twitter.com/y9kYEoJwGY] [February 20, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/FCG0oEgr8d] [February 20, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/LXu3ChO5MH] [February 20, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/1Z5bZbiJJA] [February 20, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/z8zFIZ3t05] [February 20, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/E3joKAfXxb] [February 20, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/RqTigbnv8E] [February 20, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/XTwq2TcuUj] [February 20, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/VB7MEmjPP0] [February 20, 2023] But thankfully, it seems like she's enjoying the memes about her now legendary Angela Bassett lyric. Viola Davis, my Woman King!" And in true internet fashion, those lyrics have now been turned into a meme.

In a now-viral performance, the actress turned into everyone's favorite rapper for the evening.

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Ariana DeBose's rap at the 2023 BAFTAs has been immortalized as 'Angela Bassett did the thing' memes takeover Twitter.

[BAFTAs](http://hitc.com/en-gb/topic/baftas) aired, social media has been dominated with memes about Ariana DeBose’s performance. “Angela Bassett did the thing, Viola Davis my woman king,” DeBose rapped to the audience of Hollywood stars. The West Side Story star, who won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress last year, featured at the 2023 ceremony in a musical performance.

She said she had "no warning" before she read Queen Ramonda's death in the "Wakanda Forever" script. Bassett said she was "distraught" but eventually "made ...

I prefer to be completely submerged in the water than just wet and laying on the ground." Maybe that was the point." [Speaking on the latest episode of Entertainment Weekly's "The Awardist" podcast](https://ew.com/the-awardist-podcast/black-panther-wakanda-forever-angela-bassett-ramonda-death/), Bassett said that no one at Marvel Studios, not even director Ryan Coogler, warned her about the plot twist and she only found out when she read the script. So that helps soothe you a little bit." No heads-up, no warning." [Angela Bassett](https://www.insider.com/angela-bassett-black-panther-wakanda-forever-ramonda-tchalla-son-2022-12) said she had "no heads-up" when it came to finding out about her character's fate in ["Black Panther: Wakanda Forever."

The actress had no idea about Queen Ramonda's fate until they were about to film the big scene.

The actress admitted that she had a hard time coming to terms with her character’s death. She's hoping that she will come to a place where she will appreciate the old ways. It was such a wonderful shoot, and that's not the first thing you shoot, so you have time to sort of process it and get into it. "Maybe that was the point." [EW](https://ew.com/the-awardist-podcast/black-panther-wakanda-forever-angela-bassett-ramonda-death/), "I'm enjoying the script, I can't wait to get to work, and then turn the page, and voila… The actress has no one else to blame for this but herself since she also confessed that she didn’t read the entire [Black Panther: Wakanda Forever](https://movieweb.com/movie/black-panther-wakanda-forever/) script.

Angela Bassett is being preserved in meme history following Ariana DeBose's viral rap at the Baftas with 'Angela Bassett did the thing'.

and a man 20 years her junior, it turns out. ‘Their humanity and bond fascinates us all. [Metro Football on Snapchat](https://story.snapchat.com/p/bace44d9-d6f8-4ec0-b0d2-6448cf365eab/1436206298976256). [Metro Showbiz on Snapchat](https://story.snapchat.com/p/16289297-eb61-4990-9aab-45ce173b8058/). [Florence Pugh is, of course, struggling with a 2-day hangover after partying until daylight after the Baftas](https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/21/florence-pugh-struggling-with-2-day-hangover-after-baftas-18323260/?ico=more_text_links) [glorious, age-defying person](https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/17/angela-bassett-celebrates-turning-60-bikini-proves-access-fountain-youth-7851455/) that is Angela Basset. [Whitney Houston](https://metro.co.uk/tag/whitney-houston/). [already scooped a Golden Globe for it](https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/11/angela-bassett-makes-history-as-first-marvel-star-to-win-golden-globe-18077727/), and was a nominee on at the Baftas on Sunday, [ losing out to Kerry Condon](https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/19/all-quiet-on-western-front-dominates-bafta-2023-18309389/) for The Banshees of Inisherin. [new rom-com starring Lily James ](https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/21/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it-review-a-big-hearted-blend-of-culture-18322945/)and Shazad Latif!) [ nominated for an Oscar for a performance in a Marvel movie](https://metro.co.uk/2022/11/15/angela-bassett-deserves-to-win-oscar-for-black-panther-wakanda-forever-17763809/). [seen Ariana DeBose’s viral rap ](https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/20/ariana-debose-baffles-bafta-viewers-with-painful-opening-rap-18312496/)that formed part of an energetic, show-starting performance at the [Baftas](https://metro.co.uk/tag/baftas/?ico=auto_link_entertainment_P2_LNK1) on Sunday. [Angela Bassett](https://metro.co.uk/tag/angela-bassett/) did?

Twitter ScreenshotI remember where I was when Ariana DeBose did the thing.I was watching the oft-overlooked movie musical Burlesque on a sleepy Sunday ...

Ariana DeBose performs on stage during the 2023 EE BAFTA Film Awards, held at the. Ariana DeBose's rap gave the internet a new meme. Credit: Stuart Wilson / ...

Bullen's production company Spun Gold is currently under a two-year contract to produce the BAFTAs, meaning it's also in charge of May's BAFTA Television Awards and next year's ceremonies. [cringeworthy and difficult to watch(Opens in a new tab)](https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/ariana-debose-rap-baftas-carey-mulligan-1235529343/amp/) while others laud it as highly camp. In his view the rap was a great success, and the widespread criticism can largely be attributed to people not liking change and expecting the BAFTAs to be more formal.