Trivia for
What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)

photos

board

trailer

details

• Both Halle Berry and Whitney Houston were in the running for the role of Tina Turner.
  
  
• Laurence Fishburne turned down the role of Ike Turner five times. When he learned that Angela Bassett had won the role of Tina Turner, he changed his mind.
  
  
• Charles Q. Murphy auditioned for the role of Ike Turner.
  
  

• The character "Jackie" was created solely for the movie; she isn't mentioned at all in the book "I'Tina", on which the movie is based.
  
  
• In Ike Turner's autobiography "Taking Back My Name", Turner denied two parts of the movie: the scene where he beats and rapes Tina in their home studio, and the scene where he confronts her backstage with a handgun. Ike Turner said both those scenes never happened.
  
  
• While filming the first spousal abuse sequence featured in the film, Angela Bassett sustained a hairline fractured on her right hand while performing a stunt that went awry when she fell off the back end of a high-rise sofa attempting to cushion the impact. Footage leading up to the onset mishap is featured in the film as Bassett only performed the stunt fall once.
  
  
• Jenifer Lewis, who plays Tina's mother in this film, originally auditioned to play Tina Turner. Lewis is only two years older than Angela Bassett, who plays Tina.
  
  

Related Links