The Bodyguard. Co-star Kevin Costner, then one of the most bankable male leads in Hollywood, stalled production for over two years in order to convince her to star as superstar Rachel Marron in the romantic drama. (In fact, the script had originally been written for Diana Ross and Steve McQueen back in the mid-1970s.) The 1992 movie marked Houston’s screen debut, and she was nervous. “I thought, ‘I’ll just get this little part somewhere, and I’ll work my way up,’” she told Rolling Stone in 1993. “And all of a sudden I get this script, and I said: ‘I don’t know.
This is kind of . . . big.’ So I was scared.”She needn’t have been. The movie was a blockbuster hit, grossing $411 million worldwide on a $25 million budget (£18.9 million), the.
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