Whitney is set in a period of five years (19891994) when Houston was catapulted in the worldwide success of her film debut The Bodyguard and its subsequent soundtrack. Whitney marks the directorial debut of Angela Bassett, an actress who knows something about the tumultuous personal lives of pop singers away from the mike, having sublimely portrayed Tina Turner in 1993’s What’s Love Got to Do With it. Yaya DaCosta, a runner-up on CW’s America’s Top Model landed the role of Houston, with Arlen Escarpeta is playing Houston’s wild better half, Bobby Brown. Whitney Houston Movie 2018 Lifetime The movie stars Yaya DaCosta as Houston, Arlen Escarpeta as Brown and Yolonda Ross as Houstons longtime friend and road manager Robyn Crawford. For some, she has just as much resonance as Michael Jackson, so it will be interesting to see if Whitney outstrips Aaliyah in the ratings.
That was a solid number, but while Aaliyah was in the zeitgeist at the start of the millennium, Houston, on the other hand, is one of the world’s best selling performers with over 200M albums sold worldwide and slew of diamond, multi-platinum certifications. The documentary will be followed by an encore presentation of Lifetime's ‘Whitney,’ which debuted in 2015.
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The TV film follows on the heels of the femme network’s previous music biopic Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B, which drew 3.2M viewers. ‘Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn’t We Almost Have It All’ will premiere on Lifetime Saturday, February 6 at 8 p.m. On January 17, Lifetime is hoping that you wanna watch Whitneywith somebody - somebody who loves you ( Hello, that’s a play on the lyrics of Whitney Houston’s hit single “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” for all those who haven’t committed her songs to memory).