FUN FACT: kevin costner was instrumental in whitney singing the iconic song I will always love you because he helped produce the song the way whitney sang it. that acapella moment was because of kevin
Chile this the new school for you.. they so used to the mediocre bullshit we see nowadays and they don’t know real legends and pathmakers. Janet and MJ are the formula for what it is to be a great entertainer.
They don't know that Janet was that girl and still is. I'm sure they've NEVER watched her tours. Her Velvet Rope tour was an Amazing performance. She had and still have it all in her performances. Notice that nobody ever mentions she put on a great show everytime way before Beyonce and after. That Superbowl imo was calculated to destroy her.
The fact that people are programmed to say and think, “Janet exposed herself” (even WHILE watching a video of Justin Timberlake ripping her top off) is WILD to me.🤯
Janet didn’t expose herself on tv Justin did and I hate that even ppl and bloggers of our community still phrases sentences surrounding that ordeal as if she did that to her self. He did it to her and walked away with no damage to his career while Janet the victim of his recklessness career tanked!
This is true. But Janet also stated in her recent documentary that she told Justin to not say or do anything. She said his solo career was just getting started and she would take all of the heat. BUT as a man of privilege that could've helped both of them during this scandal, he definitely should have said something.
If was a white woman like Brittany. The people wouldn't say anything. But one white employer way back in past said well it was during family time. I said it is no worst than these soap operas showing 2 people in bed naked. The children are aware of these scenes. I said it was an accident. Now if her butt was exposed she would have lost her career. You know white women can't stand that!!! The booty is powerful!!
JANET JACKSON IS A LEGEND AND THE BLUEPRINT to a lot of these women in the industry. It's a shame she was blackballed for something that was an accident. I'm not sure why her being "dissed " is the headline of this post, maybe for clickbait. Each of these women should be acknowledged for what they've done and not for what roles they didn't get.
If Janet is a blueprint, Lena is the paper that blueprint is drawn on. Without Lena, there would be no Janet. Lena was a pioneer and could say whatever the hell she wanted, and we all would bow down and listen without question. She out ranks any and everything Janet.
@$TieaWessells F**k Janet and her child molesting brother. The Jackson family has done nothing over the years but cut their nose bleach their skin in order to look like white folks. You be the fool Janitor.
The nerve of Lena Horne! She could only be so lucky to have Janet play her. It’s really sad that our own people are always quick to jump on the hate train
Lena Horne should've kept her comments about Janet to herself, or at least not made it public. We can't be giving white people and non-black people the satisfaction in any way. We need to stay on code.
I agree, this is why the five cops who deleted Tyre Nichols pisses me off! It is bad enough a innocent young black man’s life was cut short but the fact that all the cops who did it were black.
30 years bodyguard movie still stands the test of time ,and that sound track to this day remains the highest charted ever I'm so sad Whitney had passed away. Such a beauty, and so talented! There will never be another Whitney! Will always be remembered never forgotten!❤🙏🏾
I’m from Newark New Jersey Whitney Houston’s from Whitney Houston is a icon like you said they will never be another Whitney Houston she was smart beautiful and talented she had a issues but no one on the face of this planet can sing like Whitney Houston
The script had circulated around Hollywood for like 10 years and took many forms. At one point, Sylvester Stallone was attached to it. But anyway, the version that eventually hit the screen was almost nothing like the original script.
Who else's fault was it? She came up with the concept. She went behind the producers' backs and changed everything. Justin was supposed to rip off a dress, not her top, but she changed it a few hours before the show without telling the producers. To add insult to injury, she didn't wear a bra.
@@brandonkylie3456 It kills me, but I gotta agree with you here, B... The way Janet reacted when the piece was ripped off her titty was contrived. She let the boob show for that extra second longer than was natural when genuinely acting shocked, and, hey, she'd had the nipple pierced. She wanted it to be seen. The whole thing was an act. I wasn't sold on their "genuine" fake apology. Why Janet would ever even need to do something like that is anyone's guess. She doesn't need to stoop that low for extra fame.
This video just proves that things happen for a reason. All those turn downs of roles went to the characters that the universe actually wanted to be a part of and they all did really well.
It makes sense that Halle Berry got her Dorothy Dandridge project out first since she's the only one out of her, Whitney, Janet, and Vanessa Williams that's not in the music industry. She played the hell out of that role. It was meant for her.
Halle didn't play the hell out of the role, she was alright. Her acting isn't on the level of a Viola Davis, Angela Bassett. Halle won because she was dangerously agressive
I would've loved to see Janet Jackson play as Trinity in the Matrix that would've been so dope too see her in that movie, I guessed everything happen for a reason. And unfortunately she didn't play as Lena Horne 😞 but that's okay because Janet Jackson is a Legendary ICON in my eyes and she deserves her flowers as well.
Will of course was stupid to give up a role like that because a talented black lady wrote the story about the future. The writer (Cameron who is the producer was part of it)stole her story and the lady took them to court for not revealing her as the writer. The same with the Terminator. I didn't know this until a decade ago.
They called Diana “difficult” because she was a self thinker (“opinionated”) and this type of bull crap is still going on today. Women being labeled as difficult because they simply want to think for themselves. Now don’t get me wrong SOME are divas… but she didn’t deserve that at the time it was written.
Lmao well you have not been around her and everyone who has says otherwise including black women. Thinking for yourself and telling someone who hired you for a specific role what you will and won't do is totally different.
Diana wasn’t the one writing the screenplay. How do you reject 3 versions as an actress? She wasn’t a screenwriter and probably didn’t offer to help rewrite it or come up with her own draft if she was so dissatisfied.
Apparently she spotted him at a restaurant after he’d ghosted her. She approached his table while he was on a date with Farrah Fawcett I think? And Diana went straight to sobbing. It was said Fawcett felt so awful for her
1. Diana knew her worth ! And protected her brand from being used to make others rich 2. Lena Horne and her daughter, how dare y’all Janet is a legend ! 3. Black folks never left Janet - ever
The Bodyguard was one of my very FAVORITE movies ever!! And I would've loved Kevin and Whitney together because you could tell there was genuine feelings between them!! But it was never meant to be and I know he was hurt when she passed!!❤️😢
Janet is a such a strong person. I still cannot believe she had to go through everything she did surrounding the halftime show, and that we are still finding out about new things. So much respect for her.
I will never understand how Janet Jackson got all that flack from the incident and not Justin Timberlake. It's not like she did it on purpose. Guess I'll need to watch some videos and read up in some articles about it since I was a kid when it happened. Maybe I'm missing something...
Cause the collective she's a part of are all family orientated showing titties and ass on stage was definitely unheard of .I mean they're all mother Theresa' s right 👀👀👀👀
Because it’s easier for society to attack a black woman rather than a white man. The fact that Justin didn’t even defend Janet is what gets me. He was apart of the attack crew.
Lol well in their defense the role they offered her was the innocent, younger and naive one. But yes she was too young to play one of the main characters in set it off.
@@TheLovesnowangel it’s funny because wasn’t Brandy in that I Know What You did Last Summer horror movie around the same age? Not sure why she went with that movie role like it was any different from Set it Off in how she was portrayed. Both movies had dark subject matters.
@@dejstoney to be fair that one was a horror satire lol idk how most people feel but those movies are usually funny in a way, set it off was black trauma touching movie but heavy
Janet Jackson is one of the most unproblematic and respectful artist 💜 the way ppl blew up her incident was so unfair. We all was able to see how shocked and horrified she was. As an entertainer, you are taught to keep the show going. That’s what she did. I’m totally a Janet Jackson fan 😂🤣
Thank gosh Chaka Khan passed on that role for Celie for The Color Purple, I just can't imagine anybody else playing her now that we got Whoopi Goldberg immortalizing her .
I don't believe she was offered a role as Celie (maybe Sug Avery, who was the singer in the film) ...Plus, Chaka said she was only 22 years old, but Chaka turned 30 in 1983 ..and that film was released in 1985
My first guess is because young black women living in poverty struggling to take care of kids of their own is white america’s racist wet dream to see in cinema. And Brandy Norwood was literally the opposite of that and thriving in the 90’s.
She was 17 probably nearly 18, is not like we're talking about the 13 year old, and it's more about her popularity more than her age, brandy was a big name during that era and I think that she would have been a interesting choice actually,however im glad kimberly got it.
Yeah. I agree. But then again I thought there are many young single mothers so the casting director probably thought getting a 17 teenager to play a single mother was "realistic."
It's actually very interesting to learn that Whitney wasn't confident in her acting but still tried it and actually pulled it off. My mom wanted to try me for acting and I was like "no way can't do that" I mean I obviously have my reasons but there's a little Inspiration there
@@theorderofthebees7308 Another reason why I couldn't is because I am terrible at pretending to be something that I'm not so acting definitely doesn't fit me
I’m glad Lena’s biopic ain’t get done, she ain’t need to be that nasty towards Janet. Anyone with eyes saw Justin rip her top. Idk why society has been programmed to say “Janet exposed herself” 😒 that’s a dangerous lie.
Cinderella is definitely one of my cult classics. It’s such a beautiful thing to be able to share with my baby girl who now is obsessed with black Cinderella ❤
Haters because she had the ideal body even though she was said to have ribs removed. She is gorgeous and talented. On top of that she's MICHAEL'S sister. They tried to destroy her after Michael because she supported her brother and knew that they were lying on him. Turns out she was definitely right. I knew it though.
@@truthspeaks281 the ribs removed rumors are false , she always had that body . mj said it himself , janet always had the thick natural body aka her nickname dunk .
@@aliaarose_ "she was said" is basically saying that it was a rumor. If I had said "even though she got her ribs removed", then you could have corrected me. Nobody ever questioned her bum. Her bum actually fluctuate with her weight showing the natural in it. Hence I said she had the ideal body. Not a manufactured one. I know that many rumors was out about Ms Jackson and some still are. I thought her documentary was going to cover all that and it didn't.
@@truthspeaks281 i wasn’t talking about her bum & I didn’t correct YOU, i was informing people who could’ve fed into what you were saying who would’ve took it and ran with it . janet has never done anything to her body , face ? maybe as she got older but never body . they don’t just call her dunk because of her bum it’s because of her natural body PERIOD .
Janet does not get the recognition she deserves in Pop Culture. Both Janet & Michael are music royalty who paved the way for nearly everybody in entertainment today. Janet needs her flowers today.
Can we just talk about how dope this video was?! Expressive flawlessly dissected each celeb role with a smooth transition to the next! @empressive you are the best to do it!
Looks like in every situation the casting worked out for the best .... I couldn't see any of the originals playing as equally good as the ppl who did get the role and really knocked it out the box. So the saying What's for you is for you! Is so true
It was sad watching Janet get embarrassed on national Television not only that but how it was effecting her career a bit but I was always a fan of MJ and their entire family 💕💕
Kiely was the correct choice. She was a member of a somewhat popular girl group at the time. Solange was not really a thought then and Kieey wasn't disliked (and still isn't by those of us who aren't petty). The only reason some girls even paid attention to the first Cheetah Girls is because 3LW was in it..
@@jaymonster125 seriously, I doubt she was ever offered the role of Celine. If it is true she was offered anything at all, it would likely she Shug. No disrespect but Chaka is known for saying a bunch of stuff that doesn’t make much sense!
Well it takes a while for books to be published and maybe they made it with the mindset it would be a movie. Plus Chaka is older and we as humans naturally forget ESPECIALLY if it’s been decades since it happened. Maybe she did mean 30’s 🤷🏾♀️
@@TheLovesnowangel Fam, Chaka was 22 in 1975. Alice Walker hadn’t even started writing the book back then. And back in the 70s, it was damn near impossible to get serious (non-Blaxploitation) Black movies made, period. Wasn’t nobody “planning” to make a movie based on a book that hadn’t even been published yet! Hell, in 1975 Steven Spielberg hadn’t even made his mark as a director yet! Yes, we forget and misremember things as we get older (I’m already experiencing that myself)… but let’s be real: Chaka also spent many, many years in a drugged-out haze. So what she says can’t always be trusted.
So glad Halle Berry played Dorothy. She was perfect. Janet as Lena Horne sounds crazy. And so glad Solange didn’t connect herself with the Cheetah girls. That would have ruined her.
The Bodyguard is one of my faves, I'm glad Whitney got over her insecurities in acting because I can't see anyone else in it. Her and Kevin Costner would've been a cute couple!
Glad Diana and Ryan didn’t do the movie years prior . Whitney was perfect as Rachel . It’s so beautiful .❤❤❤ I recently listened to Kevin’s tribute to her at her funeral. It was beautiful. Lena and the respectability. So sad .
Malcolm X once shaded Lean Horn. I understand why, and Janet always gets disrepected because they mad her family is successful. I can't believe Whitney had no confident in her acting she is one of the best to ever do it. But I am glad Whitney always express herself
Yes...Asian, a significant part of Nicki's ancestry. She looks exactly like her aunt who appears to be full Indian. Chaka looks like the typical black person - African, European, American Indian mix.
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Oh my God! So Not only was Will Smith looked at to play as neo but Janet Jackson would have been Trinity? WHAAAAAAAAAT?! That would have been absolutely amazing!
This was a very dope video with some great fun facts, But here is one fun fact that you might not know or you probably do. Janet Jackson wasn't the only person the Wachowski Brothers asked to be the main character in "The Matrix". Will Smith was approach to play Neo in "The Matrix" that ultimately want to Keanu Reeves. But Will turned it down because he didn't get the script like he couldn't comprehend what the story was about and it was weird to him. Even Jada tried to convince him to do the role but he was like "Nah". Will to this day said he kicks himself every time he sees the movie. But can you imagine Will as Neo and Janet as Trinity?!?! That would be interesting to see.
Furthermore, The Matrix was stolen from Sophia Stewart, a black woman and the Wachowski Brothers, (now both "women") stole the script from her. It wasn't the first major movie stolen from her. The entire main cast should've been black. Aside from Morpheus, the Oracle is the only black woman in the film and un-ironically resembles Sophia Stewart. Just a thought.
@@ShayLikeButter y'all still telling that lie? It's not true. There are so many great Black Sci-Fi works and writers that you all can claim like Octavia Butler,etc but you choose to spread lies that you can easily look up instead of spreading misinformation. Sad.
After watching Janet documentary, and this info You just put out, I feel this woman been through hell and back. But she's always staying so humbled about it. You would never know she's been through so much in her life just to become the woman she is today. Unbelievable she's very strong
It's very interesting how the brothers really wanted to have black actors in the movie matrix. Will Smith turned down the role as Neo and Janet Jackson the role as Trinity. Knowing all the biblically subliminals and system defiance there is in the movie I wonder why they wanted a black cast. I wished they had accepted.
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FUN FACT: kevin costner was instrumental in whitney singing the iconic song I will always love you because he helped produce the song the way whitney sang it. that acapella moment was because of kevin
I love these videos where you breakdown how certain movies came to be & who was almost cast. 👏 Keep 'em coming! Love these! 🤩🥰Great job! 👏
I really love this FUN FACT Series. Please give more
Thank you please 🤣🤭🥳💞💞
@@raeraeallday Yes, that's well known. Great info.
People disrespecting Janet is too much for me.
Chile this the new school for you.. they so used to the mediocre bullshit we see nowadays and they don’t know real legends and pathmakers. Janet and MJ are the formula for what it is to be a great entertainer.
@@TonyMGantt Exactly
TEW MUCH
They don't know that Janet was that girl and still is. I'm sure they've NEVER watched her tours. Her Velvet Rope tour was an Amazing performance. She had and still have it all in her performances. Notice that nobody ever mentions she put on a great show everytime way before Beyonce and after. That Superbowl imo was calculated to destroy her.
It's the audacity.
The fact that people are programmed to say and think, “Janet exposed herself” (even WHILE watching a video of Justin Timberlake ripping her top off) is WILD to me.🤯
Your profile is 🔥🔥
Caucasian (WHITE) Industry Privilege…
If she was white and him black
....it would be...how dare him....his career would've been over with...
Programming is definitely the right word for it. It’s weird.
100%! Like he did that and he’s never admitted it!
Janet didn’t expose herself on tv Justin did and I hate that even ppl and bloggers of our community still phrases sentences surrounding that ordeal as if she did that to her self. He did it to her and walked away with no damage to his career while Janet the victim of his recklessness career tanked!
THIS !!!!
This is true. But Janet also stated in her recent documentary that she told Justin to not say or do anything. She said his solo career was just getting started and she would take all of the heat. BUT as a man of privilege that could've helped both of them during this scandal, he definitely should have said something.
Exactly ‼️ the whole thing is unfair . Poor Janet
If was a white woman like Brittany. The people wouldn't say anything. But one white employer way back in past said well it was during family time. I said it is no worst than these soap operas showing 2 people in bed naked. The children are aware of these scenes. I said it was an accident. Now if her butt was exposed she would have lost her career. You know white women can't stand that!!! The booty is powerful!!
He definitely did that on purpose too.
I'll never understand why Janet got so much hate for what Justin Timberlake did.
You don't?
Because this toxic society blames women for everything ! Especially Black women!
IKR u would have thought she killed someone!😒
Because she's a black woman 🤦🏾♀️
@@labelmeposh I do I just can't believe how delusional people will be just to make justin the innocent victim
Cinderella with Whitney Houston and Brandy is such a nostalgic CLASSIC. One of my all time favorite childhood movies 😭💕
Same❤️
I showed my 7 year old daughter the movie and it was sweet seeing it again but through her eyes.
The best version of Cinderella. EVER.
Literally was just talking about that.
theirs best version all the time.
JANET JACKSON IS A LEGEND AND THE BLUEPRINT to a lot of these women in the industry. It's a shame she was blackballed for something that was an accident. I'm not sure why her being "dissed " is the headline of this post, maybe for clickbait. Each of these women should be acknowledged for what they've done and not for what roles they didn't get.
If Janet is a blueprint, Lena is the paper that blueprint is drawn on. Without Lena, there would be no Janet. Lena was a pioneer and could say whatever the hell she wanted, and we all would bow down and listen without question. She out ranks any and everything Janet.
@@brandonkylie3456 omg we get stfu & let them praise her tf .
@@brandonkylie3456 don't ever disrespect Janet Jackson plus let's be real the movie still hasn't got made respect black women
@@brandonkylie3456 nobody disrespecting Lena we all know she's a Legend a icon is so much more both women are
@$TieaWessells F**k Janet and her child molesting brother. The Jackson family has done nothing over the years but cut their nose bleach their skin in order to look like white folks. You be the fool Janitor.
How could Kevin Costner not fall in love with The Whitney Houston?! Their chemistry was magical!
I've always always wished they could have gone on to be a real life couple...I feel like he would have been good for her and her whole career and life
Janet & Aaliyah in the Matrix! Sheesh! That would have been dope AF!
It’s in our other universe 🥺
The nerve of Lena Horne! She could only be so lucky to have Janet play her. It’s really sad that our own people are always quick to jump on the hate train
Lena Horne should've kept her comments about Janet to herself, or at least not made it public. We can't be giving white people and non-black people the satisfaction in any way. We need to stay on code.
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I agree, this is why the five cops who deleted Tyre Nichols pisses me off! It is bad enough a innocent young black man’s life was cut short but the fact that all the cops who did it were black.
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@@Lyttits the only time we on code is to do evil ish smh 🤦🏿♀️
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30 years bodyguard movie still stands the test of time ,and that sound track to this day remains the highest charted ever I'm so sad Whitney had passed away. Such a beauty, and so talented! There will never be another Whitney!
Will always be remembered never forgotten!❤🙏🏾
The Legend! I love me some whitney.
Truly one of a kind
I’m from Newark New Jersey Whitney Houston’s from Whitney Houston is a icon like you said they will never be another Whitney Houston she was smart beautiful and talented she had a issues but no one on the face of this planet can sing like Whitney Houston
The fact that Janet Jackson was dragged for several years but not Justin who actually committed the act of exposing her is ridiculous.
Why would they want Dianna Ross to do nude scenes in "The Bodyguard"??? The movie didn't have any nude scenes🤨🤨🤨
The script had circulated around Hollywood for like 10 years and took many forms. At one point, Sylvester Stallone was attached to it. But anyway, the version that eventually hit the screen was almost nothing like the original script.
It was a totally different script. Screenplays go through several rewrites before it actually gets made
I’m glad Whitney didn’t do the nude scenes.
That’s because she was not considered for the role.
that's what i said!!
The fact that people blamed Janet for the super bowl incident floors me
Who else's fault was it? She came up with the concept. She went behind the producers' backs and changed everything. Justin was supposed to rip off a dress, not her top, but she changed it a few hours before the show without telling the producers. To add insult to injury, she didn't wear a bra.
@@brandonkylie3456 It kills me, but I gotta agree with you here, B...
The way Janet reacted when the piece was ripped off her titty was contrived. She let the boob show for that extra second longer than was natural when genuinely acting shocked, and, hey, she'd had the nipple pierced. She wanted it to be seen.
The whole thing was an act.
I wasn't sold on their "genuine" fake apology.
Why Janet would ever even need to do something like that is anyone's guess. She doesn't need to stoop that low for extra fame.
@@brandonkylie3456 Okay.
@@brandonkylie3456 IN EVERY COMMENT WITH IT , ugh like you’re a dude .
@@brandonkylie3456 you ever thought maybe she had an outfit problem ? you’re so fucking dumb , i bet you’re white & is defending Justin over janet.
This video just proves that things happen for a reason. All those turn downs of roles went to the characters that the universe actually wanted to be a part of and they all did really well.
Yes!!!!
Absolutely agree
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Universe don't you mean God
Been missing Whitney like crazy lately rip Queen ❤🥲
Same idk her lol but it was just something about her aurora such a queen. I hope she is resting easy
we didn’t appreciate her enough. I miss her too. Michael and Prince too sad😢
@@tbigham3 She was so cool 😎....it might have been funny to be around her 😄
It makes sense that Halle Berry got her Dorothy Dandridge project out first since she's the only one out of her, Whitney, Janet, and Vanessa Williams that's not in the music industry. She played the hell out of that role. It was meant for her.
agree and even dorothy's best friend geri said halle was a great choice....
Halle be acting her butt off.
Halle didn't play the hell out of the role, she was alright. Her acting isn't on the level of a Viola Davis, Angela Bassett. Halle won because she was dangerously agressive
@@valerieproctor7366 what does that even mean???
@@truthspeaks281 I agree Halle Berry acted well in the film it’s like she became the character . I was watching Dorothy Dandridge on screen 🔥🔥🔥
Lena Horne was a legend but she was dead wrong for treating Janet that way. Smh
I’m glad Janet gets her flowers today, and I’m glad Janet didn’t take Lena’s biopic.
You mean didn’t get. Cuz she wanted that biopic.
She needs a parade
@@dee27206 She had the role but the Super Bowl controversy messed things up for her and she was blacklisted
Right and now her biopic was never done and will never get made.🤷🏾♀️
@@jasmineartis5754 and at this point, people are like Lena who? Only the Baby Boomers remember who that is.
The thought that the Matrix would've had 3 Black leads in Will Smith, Janet Jackson, and Lawrence Fishburne is MIND BLOWING!
I am embarrassed af to hear Lena didn’t want Janet to play her all for some silly nonsense
They don’t even look a like in my opinion
Angela Basset was amazing as Tina Turner
Right! I can’t picture anyone else besides Tina herself playing that role.
Killed it
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I would've loved to see Janet Jackson play as Trinity in the Matrix that would've been so dope too see her in that movie, I guessed everything happen for a reason. And unfortunately she didn't play as Lena Horne 😞 but that's okay because Janet Jackson is a Legendary ICON in my eyes and she deserves her flowers as well.
Janet could have still done The Matrix. All she had to do was change some things around. The same with X-Men was supposed to play Storm.
Will of course was stupid to give up a role like that because a talented black lady wrote the story about the future. The writer (Cameron who is the producer was part of it)stole her story and the lady took them to court for not revealing her as the writer. The same with the Terminator. I didn't know this until a decade ago.
She was also casted in scream 3 but couldn't do it due to touring
@@shawndojo1940 ohh yea she was approached as well for that role
@@shawndojo1940 Halle can’t play a$$ kicking roles. Cat woman 👎🏼 she tried to be too sexy. Which was unnecessary because the outfit and her was sexy.
I didn't even know Whitney Houston in real life, but I miss her
They called Diana “difficult” because she was a self thinker (“opinionated”) and this type of bull crap is still going on today. Women being labeled as difficult because they simply want to think for themselves. Now don’t get me wrong SOME are divas… but she didn’t deserve that at the time it was written.
Tbf Diana has been known to be diva (per her peers)
Yup
Lmao well you have not been around her and everyone who has says otherwise including black women. Thinking for yourself and telling someone who hired you for a specific role what you will and won't do is totally different.
You have right to accept or reject any offer. It isn’t a plantation. Although, theoretically it is. It is especially with the sports arena.
Diana wasn’t the one writing the screenplay. How do you reject 3 versions as an actress? She wasn’t a screenwriter and probably didn’t offer to help rewrite it or come up with her own draft if she was so dissatisfied.
I have always loved the way Janet looked in her old Hollywood persona. She looked beautiful and dreamy.
I'm so happy Brandy played Cinderella, and Whitney was her fairy godmother. 🙏🏾💙🙏🏾
4:04 I LAUGHED SO HARD AT THIS. "She really liked him" ...paired with Diana viciously sobbing and smearing lipstick all over a mirror. GIRL! HAHA
Apparently she spotted him at a restaurant after he’d ghosted her. She approached his table while he was on a date with Farrah Fawcett I think? And Diana went straight to sobbing. It was said Fawcett felt so awful for her
Ikr🤣🤣
1. Diana knew her worth ! And protected her brand from being used to make others rich
2. Lena Horne and her daughter, how dare y’all Janet is a legend !
3. Black folks never left Janet - ever
Two things; 1) I love Janet Jackson, she's a legend
2) She doesn't deserve to be rejected, it's not fair and it's wrong, totally wrong
I'm so glad Janet getting flowers now she deserves it 💐❤
The Bodyguard was one of my very FAVORITE movies ever!! And I would've loved Kevin and Whitney together because you could tell there was genuine feelings between them!! But it was never meant to be and I know he was hurt when she passed!!❤️😢
Whitney was a superb actress! She was a natural! All the roles she played she was exceptional ❤
Janet is a such a strong person. I still cannot believe she had to go through everything she did surrounding the halftime show, and that we are still finding out about new things. So much respect for her.
Fun fact: Nicki Minaj also voiced Sugilite from Steven Universe.
No she didn't
That was cardi B
@@christiandejezus3913 Dude, please do your research.
@@christiandejezus3913 You got a brain? Use it please 😁
@@christiandejezus3913 Really? It sounds nothing like her. 🙄 Yall say anything
It was Nicki how don’t you know Nicki’s voice tf
I will never understand how Janet Jackson got all that flack from the incident and not Justin Timberlake. It's not like she did it on purpose. Guess I'll need to watch some videos and read up in some articles about it since I was a kid when it happened. Maybe I'm missing something...
Sexism and racism. It's that simple.
Cause the collective she's a part of are all family orientated showing titties and ass on stage was definitely unheard of .I mean they're all mother Theresa' s right 👀👀👀👀
Exactly
If you don't believe she did it on purpose then why the hell would Justin get flack
Because it’s easier for society to attack a black woman rather than a white man. The fact that Justin didn’t even defend Janet is what gets me. He was apart of the attack crew.
They wanted Brandy (17 yo) to be in SET IT OFF?!?!?! LoL!!!!!
😂😂😂
Lol well in their defense the role they offered her was the innocent, younger and naive one. But yes she was too young to play one of the main characters in set it off.
@@TheLovesnowangel So, Kimberly Ellis character who was a struggling single mother basically ? No thanks
@@TheLovesnowangel it’s funny because wasn’t Brandy in that I Know What You did Last Summer horror movie around the same age? Not sure why she went with that movie role like it was any different from Set it Off in how she was portrayed. Both movies had dark subject matters.
@@dejstoney to be fair that one was a horror satire lol idk how most people feel but those movies are usually funny in a way, set it off was black trauma touching movie but heavy
Janet Jackson is one of the most unproblematic and respectful artist 💜 the way ppl blew up her incident was so unfair. We all was able to see how shocked and horrified she was. As an entertainer, you are taught to keep the show going. That’s what she did.
I’m totally a Janet Jackson fan 😂🤣
She's always so gracious.
They did Janet dirty, and Justine Timberlake caused the issue and was held to no accountability. 😧 , Janet didn't deserve the way they did her smh
"were"
Janet got to play Dandridge in her music video for 24 Play! She was absolutely goooorgeous
Thank gosh Chaka Khan passed on that role for Celie for The Color Purple, I just can't imagine anybody else playing her now that we got Whoopi Goldberg immortalizing her .
Tina Tuner turn down the role of Suga Avery. Oh how sad, imagine her singing “Sista”
@@shyredwall Now that would be interesting
Exactly I think it went to who it should have 🤎
I don't believe she was offered a role as Celie (maybe Sug Avery, who was the singer in the film) ...Plus, Chaka said she was only 22 years old, but Chaka turned 30 in 1983 ..and that film was released in 1985
@@Lashid4uChaka is still battling drug addiction unfortunately. Just be glad she even made it to Jennifer's couch...
Why would anyone try to give a teenager a serious role like that?
My first guess is because young black women living in poverty struggling to take care of kids of their own is white america’s racist wet dream to see in cinema. And Brandy Norwood was literally the opposite of that and thriving in the 90’s.
She was 17 probably nearly 18, is not like we're talking about the 13 year old, and it's more about her popularity more than her age, brandy was a big name during that era and I think that she would have been a interesting choice actually,however im glad kimberly got it.
Yeah. I agree. But then again I thought there are many young single mothers so the casting director probably thought getting a 17 teenager to play a single mother was "realistic."
It's actually very interesting to learn that Whitney wasn't confident in her acting but still tried it and actually pulled it off. My mom wanted to try me for acting and I was like "no way can't do that" I mean I obviously have my reasons but there's a little Inspiration there
Whitney acted on the sitcom 'Gimme A Break' in 1984 so she did have acting experience.
Try it ! Take a class you got this
@@theorderofthebees7308 Another reason why I couldn't is because I am terrible at pretending to be something that I'm not so acting definitely doesn't fit me
Everything happens for a reason and nothing happens before it’s time!
I’m glad Lena’s biopic ain’t get done, she ain’t need to be that nasty towards Janet. Anyone with eyes saw Justin rip her top. Idk why society has been programmed to say “Janet exposed herself” 😒 that’s a dangerous lie.
Cinderella is definitely one of my cult classics. It’s such a beautiful thing to be able to share with my baby girl who now is obsessed with black Cinderella ❤
Loved hearing the behind the scenes roll selections of these iconic black women. #BlackHistory ❤
How dare they do Janet like that…….
Haters because she had the ideal body even though she was said to have ribs removed. She is gorgeous and talented. On top of that she's MICHAEL'S sister. They tried to destroy her after Michael because she supported her brother and knew that they were lying on him. Turns out she was definitely right. I knew it though.
@@truthspeaks281 💯💯
@@truthspeaks281 the ribs removed rumors are false , she always had that body . mj said it himself , janet always had the thick natural body aka her nickname dunk .
@@aliaarose_ "she was said" is basically saying that it was a rumor. If I had said "even though she got her ribs removed", then you could have corrected me. Nobody ever questioned her bum. Her bum actually fluctuate with her weight showing the natural in it. Hence I said she had the ideal body. Not a manufactured one. I know that many rumors was out about Ms Jackson and some still are. I thought her documentary was going to cover all that and it didn't.
@@truthspeaks281 i wasn’t talking about her bum & I didn’t correct YOU, i was informing people who could’ve fed into what you were saying who would’ve took it and ran with it . janet has never done anything to her body , face ? maybe as she got older but never body . they don’t just call her dunk because of her bum it’s because of her natural body PERIOD .
Another fun fact: Janet Jackson was also considered for Storm in the first X-Men film. She couldn’t do it because of her touring schedule.
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"I Will Always Love You" makes me cry every time!! And the song "Exhale". Cry like a baby.
Whitney was phenomenal in acting everything she did she nailed it 🤎🤎🤎✨✨✨
She’s the talent she can sing, act what out trying just gifted
Janet does not get the recognition she deserves in Pop Culture. Both Janet & Michael are music royalty who paved the way for nearly everybody in entertainment today. Janet needs her flowers today.
Moral of the story: Everyone landed where they should’ve and everyone got what’s right for them. The end.
I’ll never forgive people for what they did to Janet after that Super Bowl fiasco
I remember hearing a story that after all that happened with Janet, lena horne and/or her daughter backtrack their statement
Wow! 😢
No matter Janet is an icon and survived all that she went through my girl still standing
These women are iconic and soo pretty. They are giving me major nostalgia 😩😊✨
Glad janet gets her flowers
Can we just talk about how dope this video was?! Expressive flawlessly dissected each celeb role with a smooth transition to the next! @empressive you are the best to do it!
Alot of industry secrets we are not aware of.
None of those things are secrets. It's been talked about for years
@@angechrisman1694 chile please its alot we don’t know behind the scenes. . But okaaay😒
I think Nikki Minaj would be great to do a bio of Chaka Khan or for them to do a song together.
This is why you’re the queen. Very versatile content
Looks like in every situation the casting worked out for the best .... I couldn't see any of the originals playing as equally good as the ppl who did get the role and really knocked it out the box. So the saying What's for you is for you! Is so true
It was sad watching Janet get embarrassed on national Television not only that but how it was effecting her career a bit but I was always a fan of MJ and their entire family 💕💕
Solange should’ve done Cheeta Girls. Everyone don’t like that other girl.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
Raven was loved back then. Many weren't checking for Solange at the time.
@@tias.6675 she talking about kiely not rayven
@@tias.6675 You're not even paying attention. 🙄🙄🙄
Kiely was the correct choice. She was a member of a somewhat popular girl group at the time. Solange was not really a thought then and Kieey wasn't disliked (and still isn't by those of us who aren't petty). The only reason some girls even paid attention to the first Cheetah Girls is because 3LW was in it..
When the book The Color Purple was first published, in 1982, Chaka Khan was 29 years old.
She may have meant 32, not 22...🤷🏾♂️
@@jaymonster125 seriously, I doubt she was ever offered the role of Celine. If it is true she was offered anything at all, it would likely she Shug. No disrespect but Chaka is known for saying a bunch of stuff that doesn’t make much sense!
@@oronbaba Sadly, no lies.
Well it takes a while for books to be published and maybe they made it with the mindset it would be a movie. Plus Chaka is older and we as humans naturally forget ESPECIALLY if it’s been decades since it happened. Maybe she did mean 30’s 🤷🏾♀️
@@TheLovesnowangel Fam, Chaka was 22 in 1975. Alice Walker hadn’t even started writing the book back then. And back in the 70s, it was damn near impossible to get serious (non-Blaxploitation) Black movies made, period. Wasn’t nobody “planning” to make a movie based on a book that hadn’t even been published yet! Hell, in 1975 Steven Spielberg hadn’t even made his mark as a director yet! Yes, we forget and misremember things as we get older (I’m already experiencing that myself)… but let’s be real: Chaka also spent many, many years in a drugged-out haze. So what she says can’t always be trusted.
So glad Halle Berry played Dorothy. She was perfect. Janet as Lena Horne sounds crazy. And so glad Solange didn’t connect herself with the Cheetah girls. That would have ruined her.
You did a phenomenal job!!
One thing these comments have told me is we don't play about Ms. Jackson ❤❤
The Bodyguard is one of my faves, I'm glad Whitney got over her insecurities in acting because I can't see anyone else in it. Her and Kevin Costner would've been a cute couple!
Glad Diana and Ryan didn’t do the movie years prior . Whitney was perfect as Rachel . It’s so beautiful .❤❤❤
I recently listened to Kevin’s tribute to her at her funeral. It was beautiful.
Lena and the respectability. So sad .
@Ann ikr they would had made a cute couple.
She could have divested . She stayed loyal to who .?
Why I love your channel because it gives me so much tea on pop culture
Chaka was born in 1953. The Color Purple came out in 1985. Let's say that the movie was made in 1984 that would still put her at 31 not 22.
Misremembered 🤷🏾♂️
I Said the same thing
Right! I was like, huh?
Lol rite even if he offered the role a few years prior she still would had been damn near 30 yrs old.
I said the same thing ha! ha! Celebrities think we can’t add.😂😂😂
Malcolm X once shaded Lean Horn. I understand why, and Janet always gets disrepected because they mad her family is successful. I can't believe Whitney had no confident in her acting she is one of the best to ever do it. But I am glad Whitney always express herself
I definitely wish Janet would actually want to see her in biopic. She is an amazing actress.
Nicki Minaj should play Chaka khan. They are twins 💜
Oms they look like Mom and Daughter but Nicki would have to be able to ACT like Chaka Khan and that's what I can't see lol
Chaka khan to me is the most beautiful woman ,Kim kardashian could never!!!
They resemble, but Nicki looks like the Asian version of Chaka.
@@tias.6675 Asian ?
Yes...Asian, a significant part of Nicki's ancestry. She looks exactly like her aunt who appears to be full Indian. Chaka looks like the typical black person - African, European, American Indian mix.
If y’all don’t take nothing away from Empressive videos y’all for damn sure better get one of them bonnets 😩😂😂😂 I’m so sick of that damn sponsorship 😂😂🤷🏾♀️….
Ima keep watching tho!
Lol I’m starting to skip it. They must have given her a good ol check 😁
😂😂😂👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I said ohhh No I'm not about to catch my whole head on fire or get electrocuted while doing the dishes 😂🤣👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾but I'm gonna keep watching tho🤷🏾♀️
Diana's eyelashes @3:23 - 3:32 !!!🔥
SMH 🤣
Chaka Khan capping she was at least 31/32 when The Color Of Purple was made 🤦♂️
Exactly, Chaka ain't younger than my mother 😂😂😂😂
janet literally looked confused in that video
Oh my God! So Not only was Will Smith looked at to play as neo but Janet Jackson would have been Trinity? WHAAAAAAAAAT?! That would have been absolutely amazing!
Nicki trained to be an actress before rapping. I’m hoping to see Nicki do a major role in a movie or a series sometime soon.
Nah nah Nikki needs to grow up She is a heartless clown
Definitely , I’m hoping so. Ik she’s older now but ik there has to be some roles out there for her
facts, she went LaGuardia for high school which is hella hard to get into
@@worldwidequisofficial I can see Nicki Minaj playing Chaka Khan they resemble each other. The singing part they can add in Chaka vocals..
Nicky will have made an interesting catwoman in the batman franchise
i just found it funny how Chaka said “i was 22y/o tops!” the film debut in 1985, you was 32, TOPS ! Love it 😩
I couldn’t see anyone else killing the Tina Turner role other than Angela!
This was a very dope video with some great fun facts, But here is one fun fact that you might not know or you probably do.
Janet Jackson wasn't the only person the Wachowski Brothers asked to be the main character in "The Matrix".
Will Smith was approach to play Neo in "The Matrix" that ultimately want to Keanu Reeves. But Will turned it down because he didn't get the script like he couldn't comprehend what the story was about and it was weird to him. Even Jada tried to convince him to do the role but he was like "Nah".
Will to this day said he kicks himself every time he sees the movie.
But can you imagine Will as Neo and Janet as Trinity?!?!
That would be interesting to see.
Furthermore, The Matrix was stolen from Sophia Stewart, a black woman and the Wachowski Brothers, (now both "women") stole the script from her. It wasn't the first major movie stolen from her. The entire main cast should've been black. Aside from Morpheus, the Oracle is the only black woman in the film and un-ironically resembles Sophia Stewart.
Just a thought.
@@ShayLikeButter Yes she was and I believe she sued and got paid off of them as well if I could remember.
It's funny because Jada got it and got herself a role in the future projects. 😂
@@ShayLikeButter y'all still telling that lie? It's not true. There are so many great Black Sci-Fi works and writers that you all can claim like Octavia Butler,etc but you choose to spread lies that you can easily look up instead of spreading misinformation. Sad.
@@HDX21 she lost her case. You should look things up rather than saying "I believe" because lot's of folks believe in Santa Clause yet is he real? 🥴
After watching Janet documentary, and this info You just put out, I feel this woman been through hell and back. But she's always staying so humbled about it. You would never know she's been through so much in her life just to become the woman she is today. Unbelievable she's very strong
Keep making these types of videos they are gems this is history !!!!!
Diana in the mirror with the lipstick marking it up. I’m crying🤣🤣
Brilliantly captured moment from her. She had no acting training.
It's heartwarming to see people defending the Empress of Pop (Janet) in the comments 🌹💝💛
It’s crazy to see how much this channel has grown! Just love it! 🤎
Loved this video ! Nicki also did the latest Angry Birds movie
I have no clue that Janet gonna be trinity on the matrix role? I wish she should be played on this perfect role.
We want part 2
Omg I would have loved to see Janet in the matrix
She would have BODIED it!
These videos are fun. Can't wait for the next one
It's very interesting how the brothers really wanted to have black actors in the movie matrix. Will Smith turned down the role as Neo and Janet Jackson the role as Trinity. Knowing all the biblically subliminals and system defiance there is in the movie I wonder why they wanted a black cast. I wished they had accepted.
I love how we took a trip down memory lane to the older entertainers! Love love loveeeee that! Breath of fresh air~~
Glad things worked out like it did with The Color Purple.
Tina Turner turn down Suga Avery. Would have loved to her play that role
I love Keily as Aqua, she’s problematic but she killed that roll especially all the dancing
Solange can dance. She was a backup dancer for DC3 during the Survivor era. She was the one with red braids dancing hard AF in the background lol 🤣
@@angechrisman1694 Kiely os better. Solo danced too hard then.
@@traveline52 Fair enough
@@angechrisman1694 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
Awww Rip Whitney the best female singer of all time!