Anecdotes

Whitney Houston's voice is used for 95% of the singing.

Naomi Ackie had to wear false teeth.

Kevin Costner, Merv Griffin, Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey appear via archive footage.

Nafessa Williams, previously appeared in Lifetime's Whitney Houston biopic, Whitney Houston : Destin brisé (2015), as Kim.

In the trailer, a radio DJ interviewing Whitney asks her about her music being considered "too white." The interview is fiction, but in the 1980s Rev. Al Sharpton nicknamed her "Whiteny Houston", saying her music wasn't "black enough."