Gayle King surprises Angela Bassett with ‘Proud Mary’ gown

Two-time Oscar nominee Angela Bassett was stunned with a blast from her films previous when she was introduced together with her iconic costume from the 1993 biopic “What’s Love Got to Do With It.”

Yes, “CBS Mornings” host Gayle King did the factor.

Bassett’s function as legendary singer Tina Turner earned the “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” star her first Academy Award nomination and King had a particular shock in retailer for the actor throughout Friday’s present.

Bassett, 64, who’s nominated as a supporting actress at this yr’s Oscars, gleefully did her Turner dance with the fringed gold gown she wore within the musical movie and mentioned she hadn’t seen it in 30 years.

“Oh, look at this,” Bassett exclaimed when she noticed the costume, which was accompanied by the matching pumps she wore within the movie.

“Angela, this is the actual dress,” King advised her, with each girls noting that it was the costume Bassett wore through the scene with the efficiency of Ike and Tina Turner’s rollicking model of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary.”

King mentioned that the beaded gown and its matching embellished sneakers have been among the many few gadgets from the movie that have been preserved within the archives. They have been saved in a local weather managed warehouse on the Walt Disney lot, in accordance with the Wrap.

The “Waiting to Exhale” and “American Horror Story” star seemed to be in disbelief that the sneakers she danced in throughout “What’s Love Got to Do With It” have been in entrance of her and mentioned that she hadn’t seen the costumes because the final day of capturing the Brian Gibson-directed movie, which chronicled the tumultuous love affair between Ike and Tina Turner.

“I love it. I love it!” the star exclaimed. “Can I take it home? I’ll keep it safe.”

“We would do take, and take, and take. We did that song all day,” Bassett advised King. “We’d do it from the top of the song to the end of the song, completely through, not like bits and pieces. The entire thing, me and the girls, the Ikettes, and afterwards [it felt] as if you swallowed a wool sweater. And he would say ‘Go again,’ and you were like, ‘Can an actor have a moment, a minute?’”

Alas, Bassett didn’t win the Academy Award at that 1994 ceremony. The lead actress Oscar went to Holly Hunter for her function in Jane Campion’s interval romance “The Piano.” Many, together with King, mentioned Bassett “was robbed” of the accolade that evening and the CBS host requested her how she felt about all of it these years later.

“Of course, in the moment you’re hoping, and praying, and wishing, but I never, I don’t walk away thinking ‘I’ve been robbed.’ That’s too negative of an emotion to carry with me for the rest of my life,” Bassett mentioned. “I choose to believe that there’s a reason why it didn’t happen.”

Bassett went on to star in Kathryn Bigelow’s cop drama “Strange Days” with Ralph Fiennes, Wes Craven’s “Vampire in Brooklyn” with Eddie Murphy and the groundbreaking ensemble drama “Waiting to Exhale” — a movie that preceded however embodied the time period “Black girl magic,” King advised her.

Bassett described the Forest Whitaker-directed adaptation of Terry McMillan’s in style novel as a “beautiful, serious, funny, poignant story.”

“We hadn’t seen those characters and those stories and all those women together at the same moment in time, because it was as if women and Black women couldn’t carry a story, and we proved that we could,” she mentioned.

Bassett broke floor once more this yr as the primary actor to be acknowledged by the movement image academy for a efficiency in a Marvel Cinematic Universe challenge, taking part in the grieving mom Queen Ramonda within the Ryan Coogler movie.