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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Naomi Aki stars as

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Speaker 1: Whitney Houston in the new biopic I Want to Dance

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Speaker 1: with Somebody, and playing any real person is challenging for

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Speaker 1: an actor, but playing someone that everyone on earth is

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Speaker 1: familiar with, like Whitney, is a far bigger task, and

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Speaker 1: Naomi was well aware of that when the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: audition first to rose. In fact, she tells Vanity there

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Speaker 1: she almost passed on the chance, saying I was like,

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Speaker 1: absolutely not, this is too big. But her team talked

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Speaker 1: some sense into her, and when she got the job,

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Speaker 1: that's when it dawned on her. Now she really had

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Speaker 1: to embody the superstar, saying that took a long time

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Speaker 1: to get my head around. The most challenging part of

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Speaker 1: portraying Whitney Houston is portraying Whitney Houston. Our goal has

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Speaker 1: been to celebrate Whitney for all that she was the

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Speaker 1: song stress, the producer, actress, fashion icon, and the person.

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Speaker 1: If anybody would be hard to impress, it would be

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Speaker 1: the man who discovered Whitney, Clive Davis. But he's blown

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Speaker 1: away by Naomi's portrayal. He says she had the big

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Speaker 1: responsibility of bringing the full Whitney to the world, and

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Speaker 1: she's the real deal. I want to dance with somebody

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Speaker 1: in theaters Friday. That's direct from Hollywood.