Clive Davis speaks to VF about his relationship with Whitney Houston, and his honest thoughts on ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody.’
The premiere was so gratifying. Seeing it with an audience and feedback really was wonderful. Our hopes as to the quality of the film were really wonderfully fulfilled.
You Zoomed twice with Stanley Tucci, who plays you in the movie, before making the film. What questions did he ask you about your life? What did he want to know, as an actor? We just conversed normally. I never got the feeling that he was interviewing me. He had seen my documentary twice and had read my autobiography, so it was just a normal exchange of conversation.The film recreates so many of Whitney’s key performances, from her audition for you, to her debut on the Merv Griffin Show, to the Oprah comeback.
Her first audition [for me] when she unexpectedly sang “The Greatest Love of All.” I had commissioned that song eight years earlier for, about the life of Muhammad Ali. It was a real good record. When Whitney started singing that song, I got chills. She was finding more meaning in that song than I ever knew was there, on her own.
I think you see it reflected in the film, after the feat of achieving seven number-one consecutive records, breaking the all-time record. I never knew that she, being as young as she was, would appreciate the historic significance of it, so I did sit with her one day and I said, “I know you know the rarity of a number one record, but I don’t know if you know the rarity ofnumber one records. An all-time record.
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