Ariana DeBose has deactivated her Twitter account after online commentators attacked her opening number at the 2023 BAFTA Awards.
“Angela Bassett did the thing, Viola Davis my ‘Woman King,’ Blanchett Cate you’re a genius, Jamie Lee you are all of us,” sang DeBose. The camera panned to the women as they were name-dropped. after the award show, producer Nick Bullen said,"The songs she was singing are very familiar songs, the room was clapping, and people were sort of dancing to the music," he told the publication.
Bullen says a lot of the criticism toward DeBose is because"a lot of people don't like change." He stressed that DeBose"worked with a great musical director and choreographer." "There's a view that the BAFTAs have to be this slightly stiff, traditional British, middle-England messaging," Bullen explained, noting that,"American awards shows have much more razzmatazz, much more showbiz and perhaps a broader range of people being involved."
"We felt we're not about revolution, we're about evolution. Let's just evolve, let's just move forward with some gentle changes that start to lay out the stall of what this show should be and where we should be with it," Bullen said. GET THE ET NEWSLETTER
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