Last night, Whitney Houston made an appearance on Entertainment Tonight alongside co-star Jordin Sparks and discussed the remake of the 1976 musical “Sparkle, which they are currently filming in Detroit. The two both had nothing but kind words to say about each other and Whitney explained how she joined the cast.

I got a call from my partner Debra Martin and she said, “You’re not going to believe this but Sparkle has been picked up and they want to do a film.” I was like “You’re kidding, after 35 years later?” She was like “They want to do this film with you and they are so serious” and I’m like, “Are you serious, for real?” She said “Yeah” and the process began and for me I was just like what do I have to do?

Watch Whitney and Jordin Sparks talk ‘Sparkle’, plus find out what singer was originally cast in the lead before her tragic death below: