Angela Bassett did the thing — and checked in on Ariana DeBose after viral BAFTAs rap
LA TimesCount the one and only Angela Bassett among the many fans of Ariana DeBose’s viral BAFTAs rap. While speaking with Variety on Saturday at the NAACP Image Awards, Bassett hailed DeBose’s buzzy homage to the “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” actor and other female nominees at this year’s British Academy Film Awards. And she is A-OK.” For anyone who has been off the grid since last weekend, a clip of DeBose saluting the female BAFTA nominees in song has been widely memed, imitated, mocked and worshiped on social media — especially the part where the “West Side Story” actor shimmies and declares, “Angela Bassett did the thing.” Shortly after the BAFTAs ceremony took place in London, DeBose deactivated her Twitter account amid all the fervor — which prompted one BAFTAs producer to publicly defend the Oscar winner’s opening medley. Gratitude is the universe’s way of saying that we are not existing in this world alone.” Saturday on Instagram, DeBose shared videos of Lizzo re-creating her “Angela Bassett did the thing” choreo at a recent concert and Adele saying “we did learn that Angela Bassett did the thing, didn’t we?” during her Las Vegas residency.
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