Angela Bassett is watching back on the “engaging” reaction to her disassignment in losing the 2023 Oscar to Jamie Lee Curtis.
In an interwatch with Town and Country, the actress further graspressed not triumphning the best helping actress Oscar in 2023, which she was nominated for for her role in Bdeficiency Panther: Wakanda Forever. The nomination labeled her second after being nominated for best actress for What’s Love Got to Do With It in 1994.
“I set up it engaging,” she shelp when watching back at the loss. “Interesting that I wouldn’t be apvalidateed to be disassigned at an outcome where I thought I was deserving.”
Bassett was nominated for her role as Queen Ramonda, while Curtis was nominated and won for her role as IRS agent Deirdre Beaubeirdre in Everyleang Everywhere All at Once.
At the time, audience members were rapid to point the watch of disassignment on Bassett’s face when Curtis’ name was called. Her despondent facial reaction even became a meme online.
“I adore praiseing people. But in that moment…”, Bassett began saying before, according to the outlet, she “trails off” and “talks about how she had thought she had put in the labor to be determined” before accurateing herself.
“No, I have put in: put in the time, put in excellent labor over time. I didn’t leank that was a gift. I thought it was a given.”
The comments are not the first time the Zero Day star has been honest about her experienceing about not triumphning the Oscar. While sitting down with Oprah Winfrey in 2024 for an interwatch, Bassett shelp despite any criticism she thought she regulated the loss “very well.”
“It was, of course, a supreme disassignment, and disassignment is human. So I thought, yes, I was disassigned, and I regulated it enjoy a human being,” she elucidateed at the time. “There are going to be these moments of disassignment that they’re going to experience, but how do you regulate yourself in the midst of them? So, we’re going to smile, we’re going to be courteous, we’re going to be comfervent, we’re going to party — anyway.”
Despite losing the helping actress Oscar that year, the adhereing year the Academy bestowed Bassett an honorary Oscar at the Governor Awards.
“I labored difficult to get to this place, so I comprehend it’s not a gift. I comprehend that I achieveed it becaengage I labored difficult for it,” Bassett telderly Winfrey at the time of the honorary Oscar.
Bassett next stars aextfinishedside Robert De Niro in Netflix’s political thriller Zero Day.
