ZERO DAY Star Angela Bassett covers the March 2025 issue of TOWN & COUNTRY magazine photographed by Ruvén Afanador and styled by Jennifer Austin.
On working with Robert De Niro: “Being intimidated by him is easy. He’s so serious, all business. We don’t waste any of his time. You want to show up and be ready to go.”
On her early days in the business: “You’re just trying to find little pieces where you are, little moments of daylight to be able to do this. So no matter how small it was, it was just a joy and a blessing. I wonder if that’s why, when I get the opportunity, whatever opportunity it is, to perform or to be in front of an audience, to me it’s daylight. It’s really…You don’t take it for granted.”
On her commitment to bringing take-no-prisoners Black female characters alive onscreen: “All of that, I think, was thrown into the pot that is my life, the gumbo that is my life, and seasoned it, so that my choices were a strong woman who was in control of herself and her situation. So that appealed to me. Gentle is something different. But weak? She never takes command of her situations? That didn’t appeal to me.”
On suffering from impostor syndrome while at Yale (and even now): “They didn’t have that term for it then. But I felt a little of that. I still do feel that. But you put on a face, and you go, and you do it anyway. Courage is doing it even when you’re scared to do it, right?”
On losing the Best Supporting Actress Oscar to Jamie Lee Curtis in 2023: “I found it interesting. Interesting that I wouldn’t be allowed to be disappointed at an outcome where I thought I was deserving.” While she may have moved past the episode, she hasn’t forgotten it. “I love applauding people. But in that moment…” She trails off, talks about how she had thought she had put in the work to be recognized, then corrects herself. “No, I have put in: put in the time, put in good work over time. I didn’t think that was a gift. I thought it was a given.”
[Photo Credit: Ruvén Afanador for Town & Country Magazine]
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