How does a Cockney girl from East London transform into an around-the-way girl from East Orange?
For Naomi Ackie, it involved dialect lessons, matador jackets, and many, many wigs.
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Can you truly talk Whitney Houston without talking wigs?
Naomi Ackie in ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody’.Emily Aragones/TRISTAR Pictures
Star Naomi Ackie (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) thinks not.
“I took home the wigs!”
says Ackie, 30.
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I took home some of the honey-blond numbers from her looks in the ’80s.
I’ve taken home a really long one from a scene for a music video.
I have about five."
“I just remember how cool that style was during that time,” says Jones.
“She was rocking it, Prince was trying to rock it as well.
The ’90s fashion lover in me was just really excited about re-creating that.”
“I worked with some amazing dialect coaches,” says Ackie.
Then it was just about repetition."
I Wanna Dance With Somebodyhits theaters Dec. 23.
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