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.
Beyoncé was deep in her film bag within the 2000s, enjoying every part from an aspiring actor in Carmen: A Hip Hopera, to a “church lady” in The Preventing Temptations and the foxiest of girls in Austin Powers in Goldmember.
She displayed vary within the award-winning movie Dreamgirls and upped the ante much more in 2008’s Cadillac Data and ’09’s Obsessed.
After which that was type of simply…it — at the least, so far as onscreen appearances go. And, in response to Tina Knowles, that is likely to be for a cause.
In truth, in a latest Instagram put up, 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 Data.
Sharing a clip of Beyoncé performing Etta’s “I might Relatively Go Blind,” Tina wrote, “Simply got here throughout this in my feed . I Listened to it a number of instances . That is nonetheless one among my favourite motion pictures and it makes me miss the truth that my youngster 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 frolicked there whereas getting ready to play Etta, who had battled drug dependancy throughout her profession.
“Wow. That is such a delicate manner of telling us we’re by no means gonna see her on our huge screens once more 😭,” one individual wrote within the feedback.
“Please inform her get again on set,” one other begged. “We’d like that EGOT!”
“I hope in the future she is going to say 🖕 it and are available again swinging,” mentioned one other.
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