‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody’: Sony Taps Soap Alums Nafessa Williams and Tamara Tunie for Whitney Houston Biopic

[Errol]

Soap alums Nafessa Williams ("One Life to Live") and Tamara Tunie ("As The World Turns") cast in the Whitney Houston biopic "I Wanna Dance with Somebody," also starring Stanley Tucci as Clive Davis and Naomi Ackie as the iconic singer.

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[DramatistDreamer]

Wow, a cavalcade of former soap actors in this project!

[Liberty City]

This'll be good. I am happy for both of them.

[DramatistDreamer]

Thad Luckinbill and Kasi Lemmons are also likely to be pretty pleased too. This will likely be a highly rated television movie.

[Liberty City]

This isn't a television film, though?

[DramatistDreamer]

Oh yeah, I am getting this mixed up with the other biopic!

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Actually then, that changes it, since the box office will then depend on the direction of the pandemic.

It would also surprise me if they didn't have some type of streaming component as backup, since, sadly, COVID-19 has proven remarkably resilient. It really is not predicted to go anywhere for the foreseeable future.

[Soapsuds]

Can't wait for this! Hoping it gets released on HBO Max!

[KMan101]

So happy for them!