Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind the Making of “What’s Love Got to Do With It”

April 30th, 2012 - By Veronica Wells

Source: listal.com

When Rock and Roll icon, Tina Turner co-wrote her biography I, Tina, alongside Kurt Loder in 1986, she probably didn’t imagine it would be transformed into a blockbuster hit in 1993 and go on to become a cultural staple. Lines from the movie, specifically “Eat the cake, Anna Mae,” would become catch phrases in the black community. Even if you’ve never seen the movie, you probably have a friend who has it memorized.  There are people who can recite entire scenes from that movie. They may know the plot and the all the lines but we’d bet money, most people don’t know the back story behind this classic.

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  • RealTruth

    Great movie!Laughed and cried! They both deserved Oscars!

  • MzMaddox

    You die..imma kill ya…hear me?! Fiction or not after his comments I can see him saying that lol

  • KL

    There’s a few things they left out, or changed. They never mentioned the fact of Tina’s relationship with Raymond Hill, the saxophone player in The Kings of Rhythm, who is also the father of her first son. Also Ike used to throw hot coffee and water in Tina’s face, and he hit her with objects such as shoe stretchers, burned her arms with cigarettes, and influenced her to smoke pot once (in her book she stated she hated it) but the film producers felt that was too much to show in the film on top of the abuse they showed. Also Ike claims he never pulled out a gun on Tina in the dressing room before her solo show at the Ritz. He did shot up her house though and no one was injured.

  • RenJennM

    “If you die, I’ll kee ya.” Not KILL YOU, but kee ya! lmao That’s my favorite line in the whole movie. I know it was a crazy moment, but it made me laugh. I quote it all the time! Jokingly, of course.

    • MzMaddox

      lol i didnt see this when I posted but yesss my fav line hands down!  thats some crazy ish to tell someone…anyone lol