Boxing Day at all times brings new motion pictures, and this 12 months, we are able to anticipate the Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Any person, which stars Naomi Ackie because the music legend, albeit leaving the singing aspect to recordings of Houston. A brand new trailer for the film has landed, and you’ll watch it beneath.

I Wanna Dance With Any person, which has Kasi Lemmons directing and biopic veteran Anthony McCarten on script obligation, guarantees to chronicle Houston’s journey from the church choir to her huge breakthrough into the music business and her knock-out (and record-setting) performances and songs, together with her memorable 1991 Tremendous Bowl rendition of the nationwide anthem.

Alongside the best way, she naturally faces challenges, together with a pushy mom together with her personal historical past in efficiency and claims that her music model wasn’t “black sufficient”. “Look, I don’t know methods to sing Black and I don’t know methods to sing white both,” Naomi Ackie’s Houston says. “I understand how to sing.”

The solid for this one additionally contains Stanley Tucci, Ashton Sanders, Tamara Tunie, Nafessa Williams and Clarke Peters, and as talked about, the movie will probably be in cinemas from 26 December.

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