Bassett was at the 8th annual American Black Film Festival Honors in Beverly Hills, an event that demonstrates how swanky bullshit belongs to people of all skin colors in The Land of the Free.
Or it might be a shadow.
Or it might be a nipple patch.
You can study the gallery here.
Sample:
IDK, I hate to say but that looks like a shadow to me. Superficially it looks like nip but I’ve never seen one that high up on anything bigger than an A cup, and certainly not on a woman in her mid 60’s. Also it seems to follow the line of the shadow that’s cast on her dress from that .. brooch.. thingy. Also the colour is very similar to that of the shadows it casts further up on the neckline. (Yes, I zoomed allllll the way in. Such is my dedication)
I was thinking the same thing. The only doubt I had was the round shape, but who knows where the dominant light is coming from and what is shadowing it.
Let’s just all refer back to City of Hope (1991) and enjoy her 33 yo breasts.
That’s not a bad scene, despite the magic knickers that somehow she’s wearing immediately after sex. And does seem to reinforce the notion that her nips would be much further down (especially thirty-some years later). Likewise the brief side view in Supernova and the seethrough and bikini shots in How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
I suppose they’d usually use fairly diffuse frontal lighting for events like that but looking at the other photos and other features of this one, it does seem like there’s a strong directional light coming almost directly from her left which could cause the shadowing we’re theorising.
Anyway one thing I think we can all agree on is she should’ve blessed us with more nude scenes in her 30s and 40s!
I’ve read somewhere that the shots in Supernova are really just deleted scenes of Robin Tunney from another part of the movie that they recolored to make her look black.
“despite the magic knickers that somehow she’s wearing immediately after sex”
This is always the weirdest choice. Like, I get it, your actors don’t want to be actually naked, you’re shooting for network television, etc. But there are choices that can be made with angles and framing or even just a little bit of business under the sheets of ‘putting underwear back on’. But it’s very strange when characters have JUST HAD supposedly mindblowing, explosive sex and then jump out of bed dressed like they could be at a public beach.
Exactly! Suspension of disbelief only goes so far. Especially when the whole theme of the scene is how amazing the sex is between these two. And then it’s like oh you were just dry humping this whole time? C’mon.