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She discusses fairness, film-making and why acting is still her first love. E ven via a video call, from an anonymous-looking office in New York, against a backdrop of stacked cardboard boxes, Angela Bassett exudes glamour.

Dressed down in a sleeveless white top, her hair long and dead straight, she still looks like a million dollars. She is too self-deprecating and quick to laugh to be hammy, but even out of character she speaks as if she is delivering a monologue: clear and authoritative, with dramatic emphases on certain words, her face and hands in constant motion.

Now she is one herself. Without Angela Bassett, there is no Viola Davis. Without Angela Bassett, there is no Halle Berry. In her year career, Bassett seems to have done it all: stage, television, movies; drama, action, comedy, horror, sci-fi, documentaries, animation.

She has played everything from civil rights icons and secret service bosses to triple-breasted circus freaks. Coming from just about anyone else, this would seem like an immodest boast; with Bassett, it is almost a statement of fact.

As for the queen roles, that box has already been ticked. But as we speak she is midway through filming the sequel to the Marvel blockbuster Black Panther , in which she reprises her role as Ramonda, queen of Wakanda. Of course, she is sworn to secrecy on plot particulars, but so far it is going well, she says, although moving on without Chadwick Boseman, who died of colon cancer last year , has been tough.

Recently Bassett became yet another sort of queen. Last month, it was reported that , her hit emergency-services drama, created by the TV supremo Ryan Murphy, had been renewed for a fifth season. But surely it must feel … good? Was offered the role of Leticia Musgrove in Monster's Ball , but she turned it down as she did not want to perform nude. As a result Halle Berry , who went on to become the first African-American actress to win the Best Actress Oscar for her performance, was cast instead.

Angela and her husband, Courtney B. Vance , became the parents of twins, Bronwyn Golden and Slater Josiah, on January 27, in California through a surrogate. Nearly fifteen years later, they both teamed up with Oscar nominee Margaret Avery in Meet the Browns , in which Bassett and Lewis played sisters.

Bassett's line "Right here! Right now! She was mentioned in the comedy drama film A Christmas Tale Vance and their children. Played Cuba Gooding Jr. Born on exactly the same date as Madonna. She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Boyz n the Hood and Malcolm X Received an Honorary Degree from Howard University. Chadwick Boseman was the student assigned to escort her around the campus.

I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep.

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career. When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school. Bev Andress. Renee Longstreet. Kate Harriton. Amy Burnett. Camilla Patterson - The Volunteer Camilla Patterson.

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