Angela Bassett has mystified audiences for generations with her amazing talent and classical beauty. When she was up for the Best Supporting Actress for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, at the 2023 Academy Awards, and didn’t win, needless to say everyone was disappointed. In a recent interview on Live with Kelly and Mark, the 65-year-old said that her twins joined in the sentiment and were “supremely disappointed” by her Oscar loss.
“I gotta tell you, I think there was a collective — I was really expecting you to win that Academy Award last year. And I’m sure I’m not alone,” Kelly Ripa said to the Black Panther star.
“So were my kids. They were. They just knew it, hands down,” replied Bassett.
Shortly after the Oscars loss, Bassett did receive The Academy Honorary Award in January of 2024 at the Governors Ball. The Academy Honorary Award is a prestigious award in Hollywood that was instituted in 1950 for the 23rd Academy Awards. The Academy Honorary Award is given annually by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Ripa’s husband and co-host, Mark Consuelos asked Bassett, if her family accompanied her to the ceremony and the 9-1-1 star confirmed their attendance and also elaborated on how she used her loss as a “teachable moment” for her children.
“They were indeed, they were with me the night of the Oscars and it didn’t happen. So they were supremely disappointed, as young people can be,” she said. “But it was a teachable moment just to, you know, to carry yourself, hold yourself, go to the parties with grace.”
“And know that, just keep one foot in front of the other, keep going, keep following your dreams. Because 24 hours, what a difference a day makes.”
Bassett shares her 18-year-old twins, Bronwyn Golden Vance and Slater Josiah Vance with her husband of 26 years, actor Courtney B Vance.
Photo: Live With Kelly and Mark Instagram; Angela Bassett Instagram; Getty Images/Angela Macon
