2. Viewers may be shocked by Bobby Brown’s portrayal.
Houston was 26 when she first met Bobby Brown, then 19. Later, their relationship disintegrated into a public mess of domestic violence and addiction.
“Not everyone is all bad, and no one is perfect,” Bassett said. “You have girls screaming and clawing for you at 13, and you see how you mature. As director, as actor, we began to think of those things, and we looked at it through those prisms.”
Bassett first met Brown in 1994, while working on Waiting to Exhale.
“He wasn’t bad at all. He was charming. He was bright. He was respectful. He was warm. He was nurturing. He was in love with his woman,” Bassett said.
