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"Angela Bassett has insisted that her upcoming Whitney Houston biopic will not dwell on the dark side of the star&amp;#039;s life. Bassett will make her directorial debut with the Lifetime television movie, and said that the film has no interest in &amp;#039;dragging her life through the muck&amp;#039;.   Asked by Entertainment Weekly if the film will address Houston&amp;#039;s death, Bassett said: &amp;quot;No. That&amp;#039;s one of the things I do appreciate about the story at least, with this first story about her. We&amp;#039;re not interested in dragging her life again through, you know, the muck.  &amp;quot;She had to play out her choices, and the consequences of them, in a very hot, glaring spotlight, but we&amp;#039;re not interested in dragging that through again.&amp;quot; The film will focus on Houston&amp;#039;s turbulent marriage to Bobby Brown, but Bassett said that it will give a &amp;quot;positive&amp;quot; portrayal of her ex-husband.   Bassett spent time with Houston and Brown on the set of Waiting to Exhale, and said that she found Brown to be &amp;quot;grounded&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;supportive&amp;quot; of his wife. She explained: &amp;quot;He wasn&amp;#039;t loud. He wasn&amp;#039;t over the top. He wasn&amp;#039;t a showboat. He was grounded. His energy felt grounded and serious and supportive and loving. Without trying.&amp;quot; Earlier this month, it was announced that Yaya DaCosta had landed the lead role in the biopic, which is set to air on Lifetime in 2015.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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