Bassey crash-course prepares Negga for film role

Irish actress Ruth Negga had only eight days to prepare for the role of a young Shirley Bassey for an upcoming BBC biopic.

Negga insists her voice is so bad that when her agent revealed she had been put up for the role as the 'Big Spender' singer in a new one-off film of her life, she thought she was the victim of a cruel trick.