Daily News | Philly’s Nafessa Williams stars as Robyn Crawford in a new Whitney Houston biopic
), and written by Anthony McCarten . “We get to know Whitney and fully see who she is,” Williams said.
The night Davis discovered Houston at a West Village nightclub in the 1980s, he proclaimed Houston the voice of her generation. She became that. In, Davis protects Houston’s legacy as America’s pop princess, an image he so carefully crafted. Her 14-year-marriage to Brown is treated like a toxic footnote, and her infamous 2002 “Crack is whack” interview with Diane Sawyer is left out.
We chatted with Williams, who calls 60th and Lansdowne her first home, about this groundbreaking role, her passion projects, and how playing Thunder in Netflix’sRobyn was such a major part of Whitney’s life, yet she’s often treated as an afterthought. Did you feel pressure to get this portrayal right?is ultimately, in my eyes, a love story between Robyn and Whitney. This isn’t the Whitney movie you think you’re coming to see.
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