American actress Angela Bassett talked about the 95th Academy Awards loss in a new interview with Oprah Winfrey. After portraying Queen Ramonda in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Angela Bassett was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, however, Jamie Lee Curtis’s Everything Everywhere All at Once ended up winning.
“I was gobsmacked,” Bassett said on Winfrey’s chat show, OWN Spotlight, on March 5. “It was—of course—a supreme disappointment, and disappointment is human.”
When the winner was officially announced, the star’s face showed a brief expression of disappointment, which viewers saw. On social media, there was a lot of debate about it despite the star’s calmness. She stated, “I thought I handled it very well. That was my intention, to handle it very well.”
She told Winfrey, “There are going to be these moments of disappointment that you’ll experience, but how do you handle yourself in the midst of them?” She added, “We’re going to smile, we’re going to be gracious, we’re going to be kind, we’re going to party anyway,” she added.
Nearly thirty years after getting her first Oscar nomination, Angela Bassett’s nomination for her role as Queen Ramonda was an enormous achievement. She won praise in 1993 for her portrayal of Tina Turner in the biographical film What’s Love Got to Do with It. But at the 1994 awards ceremony, Holly Hunter, the actress from The Piano, beat Angela Bassett to win the Best Actress Oscar.
