Naomi Ackie Cast as Whitney Houston in Biopic "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"

[lyra_loo]

Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody casts #RiseOfSkywalker's Naomi Ackie as the legendary singer: https://t.co/xWr1aJ0O0K pic.twitter.com/uwgVr2xZwj
- Empire Magazine (@empiremagazine) December 16, 2020

Naomi Ackie, best known for her roles in The Rise of Skywalker, The End of the F**king World, and Lady Macbeth, has been cast as

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[nermal_kat]

I loved her in The End of the F*ing World so I am excited, yet nervous because Bohemian Rhapsody is a terrible movie. I doubt any project can top the emotional impact of the 2018 "Whitney" doc.

[spameyeam]

The doc was soooo good and soooo heartbreaking. My mom lives around the corner from her old house, we just recently walked by it. Looked like a flutter of activity, I wonder who lives there now. I think it only sold for like 1.5 mil which seems really low for 5 acres of land in north Jersey.

[theactualworst]

Can we just let this woman rest in peace a little longer?

[likeiused2]

if her estate approved it, who is it harming?

[bellwetherr]

estates approving things doesn't really mean anything tbh

[likeiused2]

her family ain't shit, but why doesn't it matter? if I was making a doc about, idk, john prine, I would absolutely want the approval of his family.

[toxic_illusion]

I Wanna Dance With Somebody is one of my favorite songs of all time. When she hits the "I wanna feel the heeeeeeeaaaaaaatttttahhh". musical perfection, man.

I miss Whitney.

[jarellano89]

Oh 80s madonna. I still cannot believe what her career has become.

[dreamdate]

My favorite part is when it's like don'tcha wanna dance say you wanna dance don'tcha wanna dance (DANCE).

[ohwutevernvm]

Is it the lighting in that photo or is she lightskinT to portray the legendary singer? Bc that’s always the case every time comes to Hollywood with some black biopics.... So tiring.

[peachypearl]

First thing I thought as well. But maybe it's the lightening indeed because I looked up Naomi and there are several photos of her looking quite a bit darker under more normal circumstances.

[lyra_loo]

hard to say, but this is what she looked like in Rise of Skywalker:

[lloyd_llewellyn]

Still, looks not even close to Whitney. Terrible casting choice.

[yuzuruhanyu]

i rly hope that her family doesn't get a single cent from this tbh

i wish they could kind of make a movie out of robin's book instead, since she's still alive and could show the love and support robin had for whitney and the tragedy of it all from that perspective, instead of an introspective on whitney's destructive habits and spiralling which we've seen ad nauseam and don't need more of in the media.