Take into consideration the final time you noticed Beyoncé in a film. I am not speaking about voice work like The Lion King or Epic. I am not asking about live performance movies, both. I imply, the final time you noticed Beyoncé herself enjoying a human character on the silver display screen.
Beyoncé was deep in her film bag within the 2000s, enjoying every thing from an aspiring actor in Carmen: A Hip Hopera, to a “church lady” in The Preventing Temptations and the foxiest of ladies in Austin Powers in Goldmember.
She displayed vary within the award-winning movie Dreamgirls and upped the ante much more in 2008’s Cadillac Information and ’09’s Obsessed.
After which that was form of simply…it — at the very least, so far as onscreen appearances go. And, in accordance with Tina Knowles, that could be for a purpose.
The truth is, in a current Instagram publish, Tina wrote Beyoncé “determined to not proceed” performing in motion pictures. She made the revelation whereas reflecting on Bey’s flip as Etta James in Cadillac Information.
Sharing a clip of Beyoncé performing Etta’s “I would Moderately Go Blind,” Tina wrote, “Simply got here throughout this in my feed . I Listened to it a number of occasions . That is nonetheless one in every of my favourite motion pictures and it makes me miss the truth that my baby determined to not proceed with motion pictures.”
“She killed it on this film.❤️,” Tina continued, including that Beyoncé additionally “unselfishly donated her wage to the Phoenix home❤️,” a bunch of drug rehabilitation facilities. Beyoncé notably hung out there whereas getting ready to play Etta, who had battled drug habit throughout her profession.
“Wow. That is such a refined approach of telling us we’re by no means gonna see her on our huge screens once more 😭,” one particular person wrote within the feedback.
“Please inform her get again on set,” one other begged. “We want that EGOT!”
“I hope someday she is going to say 🖕 it and are available again swinging,” mentioned one other.
Severely what they mentioned!!
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