'Waiting To Exhale' Cast on The Oprah Winfrey Show (1995) [RE-UPLOAD] Whitney Houston, Angela Basset

best-selling novel it's the compelling story of four black women who are looking for love and finding it in all the wrong places it's amazing what can happen when you give a man control over your life how did all these divas wind up in one movie if angela does it i'll do it real yeah how could i say that how could you say no but i think i gotta catch up with the aretha franklin look you know where your clothes are a little too tight and we're gonna get down to some serious business too everybody wants to get into whitney's business as a person who lives my life in the tabloids too this is how we're gonna handle this today you tell us whatever it is you want us to know you wanna know it ain't that bad our exclusive interview you won't want to miss if you've been waiting to exhale ten years come and gone so fast i might as well be dreaming sunny days [Music] all right yes yes yes yes yes miss whitney houston herself is here today and she's starring in one of the most eagerly and he is waiting to exhale and it's the provocative story of four african-american women struggling to find love and happiness it's based on the best-selling novel by terry mcmillan and today we have the exclusive hana interview with whitney houston and the entire cast yes yes yes yes we are happy about that first up is the beautiful young actress who first caught our attention and eddie murphy's in the smash hit boomerang in waiting to exhale she plays robin a self-described tough cookie who crumbles for every man she meets and every line she hears please welcome leela roshan [Applause] hi leila my next guest was a stage actress who first rocketed to stardom as a dream girl in the original broadway production in exhale she plays gloria the sassy single mom who's struggling with her weight don't we understand uh her son and a broken heart loretta devine come on how fabulous yes ma'am next meet the rising superstar who is one of the busiest actresses around this fall alone she stars in strange days and vampire in brooklyn she receives an oscar nomination for her star making role as tina turner and what's love got to do with it and now she plays and she plays to death bernadine honey the dump wife who's out for revenge please welcome angela bassett [Applause] and now meet the best-selling female singer of all time in the whole history of the world she's sold over 80 million records not too shabby as an actress either her debut role in the bodyguard with kevin costner broke box office records worldwide now she's taking on a new challenge the role of sexy savannah a single woman in love with a married man please welcome whitney [Applause] houston yes the cast of waiting to exhale [Applause] [Music] okay did you like the movie it all just came from the movie isn't that nice to him very nice very nice to him well let me just say this how many of you in the theater were talking back to the theater we've all been there so it reminded us so much of ourselves yes it did uh in many ways so what does it feel like to be done to be done with it you can exhale you can exhale that's what exhaling's all about yeah was it great when you all came together or was there a little tension or was there this wondering whether angela was gonna be the diva was whitney gonna be the diva who was without diva whom was there any of that we were so excited to have the job until if there was time we didn't notice that no then at six in the morning nobody's a deep nobody said nobody's even six in the morning you're trying to be a diva become the diva so tell me how the role came about how you got it what happened to terry mcmillan call you what happened well i met terry um during the premiere of malcolm x and uh you know during the uh you know the commercial break she came down the aisle angela i want you to be in my movie waiting to excel but you don't know if it's happening when it's happening sometimes it's you know ten years and you know production you know about that and um i said okay great i want to be bernadine you know because you read the book too yeah yeah so i could just imagine that you know while reading yeah i wanted to be bernadine too angela she told me i did that only because for the only reason for this scene for the scene where you are in the closet because it is the scene can we take a look at that scene or this her husband's told her that he's leaving very cathartic those of you for the few of you who were hidden under a rock and you didn't read the book that scene comes after her husband on new year's night on new year's eve announces that after 11 years he's going to leave her for another woman and it was a very cathartic scene i was i was saying to the producers just before the show here that i i know many of us have shared those moments i've burned up anybody's car clothes but i was dating this guy in my 20s and um he had done me wrong and so i had his clothes in the house you know what i just i didn't want to burn him up cause i'm always like somebody could use him so i was right so i dropped him off at different bus stops around town yes i did the shoes were one place the jacket was another place so when he comes and says where's my stuff well i believe your shoes are at the corner of so was it cathartic did it bring back any memories of anything you'd ever experienced personally there was because we never hear about your business now whitney's we hear about all the time but we we never hear about your business so tell us something about your business but did it remind you of any of those yes i've been you know i've been in love and betrayed and you know did you act a fool those what we wanted to know not too big not too big for you you got to be dramatic but always watching it yeah but during that scene i did feel myself at one point go into a trance and and then we said girl you did it you did you did you did have you had a waiting to exhale moment uh i think i'm waiting now [Music] oh god one of those moments oh yes i definitely have i uh i was really attracted to my character because of the pain the misunderstood of robin people really judging her physically on her appearance all the time not knowing that she was really a very intelligent woman very smart a great career and these men just so badly wanted to score with her they never cared what was in her heart or what she wanted or what she needed and i love that about her well you acted her very well thank you [Music] you are very convincing thank you you've never been in that state yourself though um i think i've been um the type to really believe and trust and give a lot of chances to men but i i grew out of that uh-huh okay really about how old were you when you grew out of it because i know like a lot of us in our 20s we were crazy um i don't know there's a there's a part of robin that puts up a lot with a lot more than i ever would you know she she is uh i actually i don't think i have ever been that trusting you know when when things get that bad i'm out that's not me see ya but um you know she's she's got a great heart and i think i do too as far as uh really wanting to believe wanting to believe that love can come and can't be there and all that uh-huh well shall we talk about you well look i know listen listen everybody wants to get into whitney's business and as a person who lives my life in the tabloids too this is how we're gonna handle this today you tell us whatever it is you want us to know well let's put it like this we're here to talk about exhale my life is none of your business i'm gonna try one more time okay all right just tell us how bobby is just just just straighten out for us what are we reading the tabloids versus what's it true bobby how are you all doing we're doing fine bobby is fine and that's all i want to say and that's all she wants to see yeah well we're going to take a thank you baby we're going to take a commercial break coming up the cast addresses the critics who say the book and the film promote mail bashing and we know miss terry can have something to say about that but first here's a scene that pretty much sums up why some of us women are some of us wait a minute why some women are still having relationship problems today we'll be right back oh my goodness waiting to exhale soundtrack to wait in this hail whitney houston herself singing it that's her latest smash hit i'm here with whitney and the cast of waiting to her tail angela bassett loretta divine and little rashaan the movie opens on friday december 22nd now will you be one of those people in the theater watching with everybody else talking up to the screen i already i already was there you all know chatty cathy oh chatted on twitter and what's your name what is your name chatty who am i um let me try right no i was talking to the screen yes especially on her scene talking screaming well you know what savannah i know you have a really close relationship with your mom so savannah reminded me of you in the phone conversations with the mom with did that remind you of yourself too yes yeah yeah as a matter of fact um two days before i did that scene my mother was inducted into the r b hall of fame wow hello miss r b hall of fame and um i i presented her the award and she sang that night and it was a long time you know before i'd seen her sing in so long and it was just watching this woman who raised me and taught me everything i knew and then i went into the scene two days later and all of that came back to me really oh man there's some footage i think for us that probably was just too deep whitaker yeah yes yes because i mean i cried and all this stuff so you know maybe he said well we'll save that for you yeah yeah yeah yeah we don't need to go there that's the remix what's interesting though is i was watching it last night with a group of friends here and we were all talking back to the screen too is it that bad in the world do you think we have a lot of women in the audience who are always is it that bad [Applause] is it that bad [Music] because it seems pretty bad it seems not that bad it's not that bad yes oh gosh you want to know it ain't that bad well well cause do your friends do your girlfriends all tell you that it's that bad do your girlfriend tell you oh yeah we my girlfriends we've sat around and had conversations like what's the problem yeah you know dating is hard to start dating particularly people are in relationships it's yeah well i told my girlfriend gayle last night because she hasn't seen the movie and i was saying guys it seems like it's really bad out there and she says who are you telling it is bad it is bad some critics say though that the book and most likely the movie promotes male bashing the cast says the movie is really about sisterhood so you take a look at this scene where the girls get even the white people over there shaking their heads thank you white people thank you the girls get a little tipsy at gloria's birthday party take a look at this and you tell us the one man i love is married with a kid there's my life in one little sad nutshell me and leave their wives at least he told you he was married you ever see i'm not your avid 24 year old girl who's willing to wait around count to days [Music] i'm 33 years old and i still look good i still look good you fish doing good girls [Music] mm-hmm whatever happened to the good old days now we're going to bring miss terry mcmillan out here later on i know she will have something to say about that mail-bashing comment but what do you want to say it's not it's not a bashing movie it is about sisterhood it's about experiences that women go through where the men and men go through with women not every man in the movie is the so-called bad man we have gregory hines who was fabulous wasn't it gregory my son what do you want yeah yes i can give you all that and more you know it's a judge i wasn't so sure about that though okay i wasn't so sure about michael giving her all she wanted i wasn't sure about that were you he would if he would have i chose to believe him you did even when he walked in the bar with the other woman you were you were believing well she had dumped him by then he had dumped him okay yeah she said i just fired him a week ago he doesn't take the time to know those things before we get intimate they only come out you gotta admit that was a pretty funny scene [Applause] you gotta admit that was pretty funny how'd you all shoot that that's what i wanted to know there's a scene that is it yeah it it took two days and uh i was really surprised how funny it turned out and it i was very pleasantly surprised because you know it it's no matter what he was the most giving wonderful actor i could have worked with but you know when someone's on top of you for two days [Applause] i just kept saying forest don't we have it yeah yeah did you get it i thought that's a classic comment cause you can just lose it for anybody on top of it for two days so to speak well lilo plays robin the ultimate bad man magnet take a look at this scene where she finally decides to give a nice guy a chance for once take a look at this it's a good scene [Music] two days two days to do that oh it gets more involved the scene progresses if we might say so yes so that was the scene we're talking it took two days yeah i was dropped about 50 times so after a while it doesn't seem funny to you at all no but you really wanted this part oh badly badly and um i had a really hard time being seen for the part i couldn't get an audition and it just like turned me on even more i wrote a letter to forrest i carried around a folder that said exhale i asked everybody knew if they knew i knew if they knew terry mcmiller or forest whitaker found somebody who knew terry begged her begged her to talk to forrest for him to see me i said please give me ten minutes no give me five just give me an adult really and um that's great [Music] so what is it what does it feel like when you wanted something so badly and then it does it feel real when it happens like when you see yourself on the screen oh it's incredible i mean when they offered when i when my agents called me and told me that i got the part i ran up and down the hallway by myself yes yes and then i went oh god why were you scared of what were you screwed up i was overwhelmed i couldn't believe it did you know that did you know then about angela and whitney yes and and loretta and all these people i had my admired i mean i was angela was like a mentor of mine i mean i just loved her didn't she wear out tina yes you did yes you did the dream girl the oscar-nominated actress the pop diva it was just overwhelming what'd your mama say i always want to know what people's mama said when you tell your mom what's your mama say she cried she cried she was like that's nice baby mommy's always say baby baby that is coming up waiting to exhale stars all these fabulous women but they're also some well-known leading men boy did we let out a shout in the theater cause we didn't know wesley snipes was in this movie we went whoa and gregory hines we'll talk about them next and hear some behind the scenes stories that kept the cast rolling in laughter back in a moment [Music] [Applause] [Music] freddy you're so pretty wow when you say that my secretary used to play that song in her office i i will always love you over and over and over she was going through a thing i guess so she played it until that was just over the bill he was just unbelievable you you will play it when you're going through a thing yeah yeah we will work on you when you're going through things is that your favorite song of all times of yourself singing i i don't know i don't know i i it's probably one of my favorites i think um the greatest love of all was my favorite really yes really [Music] well angela's made a career out of playing strong women and one of her most impressive roles was of course and what's love got to do with it take a look at this intense scene where angela's tina turner tries to break away from her abusive husband ike played by lawrence fishburne you don't know don't forget this one come here huh no show me something to be like [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you can't do no better than that [Applause] what was that like it was fun it was exhausting it was tight but uh lawrence was great to work with isn't it great when you work with great people because they make you better really makes your games did you all feel that about this ensemble that working with each other actually so far as i said if angela does it i'll do it really yeah yeah so you were the first one cast well i it sort of happened simultaneously i saw him in the parking lot at fox and he said angela i'm going to new york to talk to whitney and will you do it you know and of course you can't we can't make the deal in the parking lot right here but i said forrest i can't say yes but if you're directing and whitney's in it like how could i say no how could you say no how did you get in everyday what happened i went through the regular process of auditioning i had an audition and i didn't think i could get it so i said well he's gonna be doing some hbo specials maybe i'll get one of those so i wasn't that yeah so i wasn't that real i wasn't that tense about it until i got a call back then i really really got scared but i think i got it because i wore the aretha franklin look you know where your clothes are a little too tight and [Applause] help you know because that's a great look so i got the part you think that's what did it it helped it helped so what did you do did you run up and down the hallway when they told you you had it well you know um i found out from a girl that was uh that that auditioned with me because she didn't get it she called somebody and they told her that i got it she caught the ole miss thing well you got it i went it was the weekend i couldn't call my agent so i was really like oh my god did i get it or did like was she messing with me did i get it and so i had to wait two days but i waited all over the holidays so it was a long haul remember you said you you were at an audition and and they said oh some girl from new york got it and she said oh i guess i didn't get it it was here because it was you i gave up yeah and so is it like the biggest thing that ever happened in your life and what does that feel like uh it makes you misty all the time and because it's so it's something you wanted is so unreal and like being around whitney and angela and leela it's like it feels normal but you know it's not every day you know so it's a little you know it's your everyday though well it's been lately my every day but yeah it's great it's really those scenes where gregory hines i love the scene with gregory hines where you first talk to him and then you're walking across the street and you say you say exactly what every woman would be thinking at that moment here's a look at lonely loretta making a move on next-door neighbor gregory hines take a look at this [Music] [Applause] yeah i love that and congratulations to terry mcmillan and ronald bass who wrote that because that's exactly what every woman would be thinking at the moment we will be right back in a moment back in a moment when we come back terry mcmillan the author waiting to entail reveals the inside story of how a best-selling book made it to the screen back in a moment [Music] joining us now is the author who started this whole waiting to exhale phenomenon with her number one book which has sold over three million copies to date please welcome terry mcmillan yes terry [Applause] yes thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you that's got to be a fabulous feeling i read about you at ebony when the checks started coming in didn't y'all read that story in ebony about terry and they're still coming in isn't that like isn't it like you just like in another world when it's happening because you can't even believe it right yeah that's pretty true yeah yeah how'd this movie get from your head to the book to the screen oh um well i basically looked around at all my girlfriends and myself included a few years back and realized that it had been quite some time since i'd had a date um exactly how much time um well when i say a date i mean some i mean i know it has been a while since i had been out with somebody that i really really liked yeah like how much time years years like years yeah years really yeah i mean i had what you call main maintenance-oriented dates [Applause] but who felt what you felt and was yeah yeah yeah and i had a lot of friends who were in the same boat um pretty i mean well-educated women somewhat attractive smart um just couldn't understand why it was so hard so is each of the characters based upon somebody you know or is it a compilation no it's a compilation um pretty much so i mean the robin character was sort of she epitomized what i call the complete ditz you know of course leela has nothing in common with her yeah but um women that i know that are totally desperate that'll do pretty much anything to get a man and so she was sort of like are there still a lot of those because as i was watching on the screen tons there are yes and a lot of them are on daytime talk [Applause] shows [Applause] now how'd you get this movie to the screen because i know everybody wanted this movie every because people were surprised i remember when the book first came out people were surprised that black people were going to the bookstores in droves to buy this book and there are a lot of people who were surprised by that because there you know there hadn't been books that did that a lot well i think um 20th century fox um they bought the movie rights there there were sort of like quite a few folks vying for it which really surprised me but i think that there was just a strong identification with a lot of the women um both white and black among other ethnic groups that this was sort of a universal kind of a story even though the characters were black so i think that um aside back then i don't think that everybody was aware that there would be a number of quote unquote girly movies at this time but you know i think women's lives are interesting and they warrant and merit being shown on the screen and men and some [Music] but terry i think i remember terry when you were on this show and i think you i don't know if you had sold a million copies yet but early in the beginning of the book are you surprised that you've sold this many books yes of course i mean i'm i'm not telepathic i had no idea that so many people would even like the book uh-huh um i mean you don't know when you're sitting there quietly all alone and sipping on coffee and you don't know you don't know if people are gonna like what you do it's like having a baby and praying that people think it's cute [Applause] when we come back i want to ask the men in the audience their reaction to the movie we'll talk to some of them in back in a moment [Music] well yes sir well i was going to say in the beginning of this movie i thought the movie was making men making mention they were really insensitive and i was really hurt by that we're hurt she said in the beginning okay and then what happened it really it really wasn't that you were making them insensitive i think it was just what this movie needed um because towards the end of the movie i really thought that um love was really important it reminded me of a woman that i fell in love with and it didn't work out and it wasn't so much that um i was insensitive just things just don't work out sometimes you know but men aren't intense did you like the movie i loved the movie a lot a great you did yeah thank you [Music] yes sir i just want to say whitney i think you're the greatest i want to ask you was this movie more difficult or easier than the bodyguard and how did they compare to you um this is a lot more familiar to me you know the bodyguard was rachel marin and that whole world i'm familiar with rachel's world but rachel and i are not the same because if you told me somebody trying to kill me you gotta tell me once and that's it that's it that's it it's all it's on after that i'll see you this was very familiar oh yes felt like home just like home like i was with my friends as a matter of fact we got together one night my aunt cooked ribs green some macaroni salad and some ears of corn and some homemade lemonade and we got two bottles of champagne and from nine to five i'm saying 99 to five in the morning we laughed and talked and just had us a good time we were gonna play spades yeah play two hands two hands and talk to rest cars went over the shoulder it was on just fire yeah she had a great time next whitney tells us about a project she's working on with den zelle [Applause] [Music] so whitney you're going to be working with denzel that's right is a movie called the preacher's wife have you all started already excuse me have you started already uh we started rehearsals yes we have um i started filming in january we're taking ice skating lessons now you know it is a remake of the bishop's wife uh-huh with loretta young david niven cary grant what is the preacher's wife is mo mo black more chocolate you know you know better bishop is now a preacher yeah yeah and how is it working with denzel so far wonderful wonderful good yes that's good we look forward to seeing that we'll be right back [Music] waiting to exhale opens friday december 22nd for everybody who's been waiting for it friday december 22nd that's the day thanks to all of you for joining us today the movie soundtrack the music is unbelievable in this movie it's also available coming up next we're going to salute the parents of singing sensation brandy the young artist who's inspiration just happens to be miss whitney houston [Applause] [Music] thing to exhale

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Length: 34min 14sec (2054 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 17 2020