Belting out “Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves” and “We Are Family,” the singer transitioned into an original rap saluting the awards’ female nominees. Speaking to Variety the morning after the telecast, the producer - who was backstage during the London awards ceremony honoring the best movies of the year - shared that the “West Side Story” star “put the whole piece together” with her team, working closely with a musical director and choreographer, and didn’t deserve the vitriol.ĭeBose and her back-up dancers burst onto the stage following host Richard E. It got so bad that Ariana deleted her Twitter account and now BAFTA producers are trying to get everyone to chill out.īAFTAs awards producer Nick Bullen believes Twitter criticism of Ariana DeBose’s opening number at Sunday’s awards show was “incredibly unfair.” People were clowning on “Angela Bassett did the thing” all of Sunday evening and into Monday. Well, this silly/dumb thing has become one of the major stories from the BAFTAs. BAFTA producers should have known better and made better choices, and Ariana should have had the good sense to shut it down too. Now, was this *offensive* or harmful? No. Sisters are doing it for themselves! The incredible opens the 2023 #EEBAFTAs with an iconic performance! ✨ /G9YgKN2e1tĪbsolute cringe. Instead of merely assigning Ariana a prominent presenting position, BAFTA producers worked with Ariana’s team to give her space to “perform” a half-singing, half-rapping mess in the opening of the awards show. Ariana came into the BAFTAs as the reigning Best Supporting Actress BAFTA and Oscar winner. I didn’t make the Ariana DeBose-BAFTA situation into a stand-alone post yesterday because I actually felt sorry for her and embarrassed on her behalf.
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