Candiace Dillard Bassett Talks ‘I’ve Cried The…
Candiace Dillard Bassett is on an impeccable post-Housewives run, and she’s telling BOSSIP all about it.
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Fresh off of her run on the favored “whodunnit” competitors show, The Traitors, launching a podcast, and releasing music, the multi-hyphenate headed back to the stage to reprise her position in Dennis Williams’ musical I’ve Cried The Blues — all while being a mother and spouse, may we add.
Bassett made her musical debut in October in Washington, D.C. She returned to the stage in early May for a show stop at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut.
The “If Only” singer chatted with BOSSIP about her pleasure about returning to the position and her emotions about getting back on stage to take on the position a second time.
“I feel more confident, more prepared. I’m someone who, as a performer, actor, and artist, repetition is like my best friend. I love to do the thing 50 times and then take a break and then do it 50 more times,” she said.
This position is especially particular because the playwright is her Howard University classmate, Dennis Williams.
“It feels otherworldly. I remember being really young and watching the cast of A Different World, and Debbie Allen and other people from Howard University kind of come together, and it’s like, wow, this is so cool that these people study together and now they’re, like, creating the art of a generation,” Bassett told BOSSIP. “And it seems like this is how it was always supposed to be and how it must be. Dennis and I’ve said for years, ‘Oh, we want to work together.’”
Bassett performs “Miss Lilly,” a lounge singer with big desires of making it big, despite the boundaries of life in the Jim Crow South. The former Potomac housewife feels related to the position because of her Southern upbringing.
“[I am deeply connected to this story] because it’s a part of my history as someone who has roots in the South, but also as someone who sort of came of age at an HBCU at Howard University, where that history was ingrained in every part of the curriculum.”
On This Post-Housewives Season Of Her Life And EGOT Goals
“This season is busy and blessed, if I had to put it into two words.I feel like I’m busier now without the Housewives than I was when I was in the thick of it. You film for four months, and then you get a little bit of a break while they’re editing,” Bassett told BOSSIP.
“But then once the show airs, you’re doing press. You have to stay sort of in the mix of things as the show is airing week to week. And then you do the reunion, and you have to relive everything again. And then you’re right back into filming the next season. So you don’t really get a chance to rest.”
Motherhood has also helped the Georgia native be taught more about herself and her artistry.
“Being a mother and being an entertainer, a performer, I’m an artist to my core. And if I didn’t know that before, I think having this time to really reflect and sit in my art post-Housewives, it just confirmed that I am an artist.”
“ To quote the ancient African proverb, I’m sensitive about my sh*t, as our auntie Erykah said.”
Like many entertainers, EGOT standing is unquestionably on the imaginative and prescient board for the 39-year-old.
“I think every performer would be crazy to not have the loftiest of dreams to become an EGOT. So absolutely, it’d be so great to start in theatre and have a Tony somewhere for a brilliant piece of work that I’ve done. That would be amazing.”
Candiace Dillard Bassett Talks Motherhood And Son Jett’s Milestones
Candiace and Chris Bassett’s son Jett shall be two in October, and the truth tv star shared how shortly he’s growing.
“It’s crazy to even think about because I feel like we just celebrated his first birthday. And I also feel like I just had him. And I look at him now and he looks so different from when he was just this little blob of a newborn. He’s talking. He’s running around. He’s saying ‘no’ to everything, he’s very opinionated,” the new mother told BOSSIP.
“It’s been so much fun. And as someone who was really unsure about motherhood and really not confident about my ability to be a mom, it’s so refreshing and so satisfying to feel like I’m kind of good at this. I love it, I love being Jett’s mom.”
On What’s Next In Entertainment
Candiace Dillard Bassett is clearly on an spectacular run, tackling numerous leisure avenues, like her podcast Undomesticated, with even more tasks in thoughts.
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“Broadway is definitely something that is on my bucket list. I would also love to try my hand in the daytime talk space. That has been something that I’ve always just loved. Ever since Oprah crashed onto the scene and showed us that we could be reflected in this space,” she said.
“Then, when The Real debuted, I was glued to my TV. I loved that we were looking at a cast of all women of color that were holding their own in this daytime talk space, the ensemble of it all, it was like, ‘wow, I want to be there.’”
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