‘The Weekend View’: Ariana DeBose Defends Angela Bassett Feeling Disappointed With Oscar Loss, Says “That Does Not Negate Jamie Lee’s Right To Joy”

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Ariana DeBose is defending Angela Bassett‘s feelings of “disappointment” after losing at the Oscars to Jamie Lee Curtis. In a preview for The Weekend View, premiering on Saturday, March 1, at 7:30 a.m.

ET on ABC News Live, the co-hosts discuss Bassett’s loss at the Academy Awards in 2023. DeBose, who presented the Actress in a Supporting Role category at the Oscars to Curtis in 2023 and was a guest co-host on the ABC talk show, gave her take on the situation. “I know Angela a little, but I know Jamie Lee very well as well,” DeBose said. “You can’t take any of the emotions away from either one of these women.

Someone’s disappointment doesn’t negate someone’s joy. And I think there’s an inner workings of how all of this stuff works that a lot of the public don’t get to see.

That also compounds the situation.” DeBose noted that “if you think about Angela’s journey” in Hollywood, “She should’ve won that Oscar for What’s Love Got to Do With It.” “She has every right to feel disappointed as a woman of color in this industry when we struggle to feel seen, heard and valued, both in the context of how much money we’re making and the work that we’re actually putting out,” the Oscar winner added. “So there are reasons why Angela feels the way she feels.