Remembering Whitney Houston's efforts to bring homeless children Christmas joy every year.However, she wanted to start with smaller roles, telling Rolling Stone: 'I never thought I'd be co-starring with Kevin Costner!'Īware of the scrutiny she would get as a popstar becoming a Hollywood star, much like Madonna, she worried that 'people would dog me before they gave me the opportunity to do the job.' By then, Whitney was having a great pop career, and was considering acting too. Who was Whitney Houston’s talent manager father John Russell Houston?īut he quickly realised that no one else could play the character Rachel, and was willing to wait a year for Whitney to accept the role: 'I just thought she was that right.'Ĭostner had to convince Whitney to take the role.How living with Elvis Presley inspired Whitney Houston’s classic ‘I Have Nothing’.Kevin Costner was adamant that he wanted Whitney Houstonīy the early 1990s, Whitney Houston had become a huge international popstar.Ĭostner later said that he was drawn to Houston for simple reasons: 'I saw her like every red-blooded male would see her: I thought she was really pretty.'.But Ross ended up turning down the project, and it disappeared again, until little-known Costner read the script.Īfteer Costner became a Hollywood star thanks to Dances with Wolves, he helped push The Bodyguard into production. McQueen had been replaced by Ryan O'Neal, whom Ross was dating at the time. However, the script was rejected 67 times before being accepted and then discarded. Writer Lawrence Kasdan wrote the first drafts in 1975, with Diana Ross and Steve McQueen on course to play the leads. Inside Whitney Houston’s last ever performance and troubled final days.Watch the first trailer for new Whitney Houston biopic, I Wanna Dance With Somebody.The actor had his own ideas for the film's script, which had been hanging around for nearly 20 years.

The Bodyguard followed a stoic titualar character, who reluctantly signs up to protect a superstar known to be something of a diva, from someone is sending her threatening letters.īy the early 1990s, Kevin Costner was cast as the lead in the film, and he quickly became heavily involved in the production's development. The time Whitney Houston effortlessly sang 7 notes in under 1 second

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