In 2019, Beyoncé excelled in The Lion King where she was doing Nala’s voice. A very important role that marked the spirits. A nice revenge for the star who passed a few years earlier next to a huge Disney project for a stupid reason.
Beyoncé’s acting talents are well established. However, the star could have demonstrated them more. In her career, the singer has repeatedly missed out on many film projects that were ultimately successful without her… Some may have forgotten it, but at the start, long before the flagship duo formed by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, Beyoncé and Clint Eastwood had been tipped to direct a remake of the film A Star Is Born, as producer Bill Gerber had said. Only, the artist became pregnant and the actor then devoted himself to other projects. The wife of Jay Z also missed several huge Disney movies!
The singer was expected to The princess and the Frog
If she made an impression by lending her voice to Nala in The Lion King in 2019, some big cinematic hits escaped him, sometimes stupidly. For ego issues? Two years earlier, in 2017, she could have played in the remake of The beauty and the Beast. Its director, Bill Condon, who had already directed it in the film Dreamgirls, released in 2006, had considered offering him the role of Plumette, the feather duster who falls in love with Lumière, the chandelier. A simple appearance that would have been too short for a star like Beyoncé. Several years ago, the diva would also have been approached for The princess and the Frog (The Princess and the Frog), this time in the coveted lead role as the first black Disney princess.
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She reportedly refused to audition
In his autobiography titled Confessions of a Casting Directorcasting director Jen Rudin reveals that Beyoncé was approached, but that she refused to audition for the role of Tiana. “Beyoncé expected to be offered the role, but she didn’t audition so she didn’t get it”she confides in the book recently echoed on the site TheThings which recalls that this is how she missed out on a film that brought in $271 million at the box office. Conversely, Alicia Keys would have auditioned three timesbut she was not chosen, just like Tyra Banks and Jennifer Hudson who had also expressed their interest in the role which was finally entrusted to Anika Noni Rose.
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