In this much-buzzed-about biopic, leading actress Naomi Ackie doesn’t look like the late Whitney Houston, nor can Ackie sing like Houston (in all the big musical numbers, it’s the uber-supple voice of the global icon). But who cares?
As those who’ve seen Lady Macbeth, The End of the F***ing World and season three of Master of None will know, the 30-year-old Walthamstow actress has a blistering on-screen presence. From the get go, she nails it as the savvy but insecure pioneer, seen here from her teenage years until her death in a film that makes clear that the dripping tap of drug use started well before her relationship with Bobby Brown.
