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Angela Bassett Talks Narrating Women-Led Nat Geo Docuseries ‘Queens’: ‘That Spoke to My Heart’


Angela Bassett narrates Nat Geo's new wildlife docuseries "Queens."

Series co-executive producer, showrunner and writer Chloe Sarash said that the creative team wanted Bassett from the beginning. “We [needed] the series to be female led, but then when we looked around we realized that there weren’t enough people at the right level and high enough to do that,” Sarash said. “So we very intentionally worked to mentor and train and bring an extraordinary new group of talented filmmakers through.

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