She's stepped into the shoes of many iconic women, from Tina Turner and Malcolm X’s widow, Betty Shabazz, to Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King Jnr, and civil rights activist Rosa Parks.
Yet, it’s taken the role of a fictional queen in a made-up world to put Angela Bassett well and truly on the Hollywood award-givers map.
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