Is Lifetime trying to pull a fast one and give Whitney's alleged previous lesbian love affair a new life?
Well down to Lifetime Televison headquarters,
Angela Bassett is in and out of meetings, rocking a pixie cut wig, casting girls for her directorial debut in the upcoming Whitney Houston biopic. Tentatively titled
I Will Always Love You: The Whitney Houston Story, the film will mostly chronicle the tumultuous marriage between Whintey Houston and Bobby Brown. However, many of you may not know that outside of casting
Yaya DaCosta (Next Top Model, The Butler) as the legendary songstress, there have also been other interesting choices made.
Rounding out what appears to be the main players are
Arlen Escarpeta (Friday the 13th, Final Destination 5) as
Bobby Brown and
Yolanda Ross (Antwone Fisher, Whatever Works) as Whitney's rumored lesbian lover and former assistant
Robyn Crawford.
It will be very intriguing how this project unfolds. Outside of the Houston family's dismay for such a production (claiming that such an endeavor should be a motion picture, not a television movie), the storyline of the role Robyn Crawford played in Whitney's life will be of particular interest. During the height of her career, tabloids speculated about the relationship between her and Robyn. While both have always denied a romantic affair, Whitney's own mother Cissy Houston couldn't answer as to if they were together or not in an interview with Oprah Winfrey last year.
It will be very interesting how this uncertainty will be displayed on the screen with Whitney's former
Waiting to Exhale co-star Angela at the helm. I'm not sure if Ms. Bassett was as privy into Whitney's life to know too much considering they only worked together once. However, I'll definitely be glued to my screen when all is unveiled in 2015. No actual date of the film's debut has be set.
Meanwhile, I'll be researching where to audition for the role of
Cissy Houston.
