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I Wanna Dance with Somebody: Fact-Checking the Whitney photographs
Naomi Ackie talks new film, I Wanna Dance with Somebody l GMA
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She told Yahoo UK, “I sing the first song that you hear in the film, when she's a big younger and needed to be refined. But most of it is Whitney. I just sing for the dramatic beats, so I sing in one of the office scenes, when she's choosing a track. But I don't do it too much.
Ackie lip-synched to Houston's songs, though she does her own singing in a few early scenes.
Naomi Ackie does an outstanding job as Whitney Houston in I Wanna Dance with Somebody, and even longtime fans might learn a few things about the singer's life.
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All the vocals come from Houston, but the breaths of the actor who plays her, the British star Naomi Ackie, have been deftly incorporated to make the physicality of the performance palpable. “It's got to sound, and feel, like she's singing live,” Lemmons said.