Toni Braxton on Lex Scott playing her in 'Unbreak My Heart.' She stands like me, she plays piano like me, she holds her head like me … she had all my natural mannerisms. “I was amazed that she had all my natural mannerisms.” “When I met I said, ‘She’s me.’ She stands like me, she plays piano like me, she holds her head like me, especially when I was younger,” Braxton says. As executive producer, Braxton (who also narrates the movie) chose not to be involved in the casting process, but she did have final approval on who would portray her. Starring as the young Toni is 24-year-old newcomer Lex Scott Davis. The biopic traces Braxton’s ascent from her strict Christian upbringing in Maryland - singing in church with her four younger sisters (who now star in their own WE tv reality show “Braxton Family Values”) - to R&B icon as the winner of seven Grammy Awards with 67 million records sold. That anecdote, and many others, are recounted in the Lifetime movie “Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart,” premiering Saturday at 8 p.m., which is based on the singer’s 2014 memoir. “I didn’t want to do it but I did it and it was the biggest thing in my career.” “But they turned out to be right,” she adds. I thought ‘Un-Break My Heart’ would put me back in the same category of being an adult contemporary artist.” It was strategic to be an artist because of the texture of my voice, but I wanted to be 25 years old. “I knew I wanted to change my image and be a little sexier. “I heard the song I thought, ‘This is nice, it’s all right.’ said, ‘We think this is a smash,’” Braxton, 48, tells The Post. The only problem? Braxton initially didn’t like it. Toni Braxton’s “Un-Break My Heart” was a career-defining song for the R&B artist in 1996 - going platinum, winning a Grammy Award and selling more than 2.4 million copies.
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