Beyonce 'too sexy' for Dreamgirls role
Bang! Showbiz | Friday, 26 January 2007

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TOO HOT: Beyonce also missed out on a role in Dreamgirls after being deemed 'too sexy'.

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Beyonce Knowles was almost overlooked for the role of Deena Jones in Dreamgirls because she was too sexy.


Director Bill Condon has revealed he had reservations about casting the 25-year-old star as the Motown singer, even though she made it clear she desperately wanted the part.

He told Bang! Showbiz: "Beyonce did come after us, it wasn't the over way round. We met, I loved her but I still had to question two things. One of them was it was a level of acting she had never attempted before, but more than that, you know, when you have got such a well developed stage persona, we all can name names of people who can do one thing brilliantly, but could she adapt to something that was so really different?

"If you think of the way she is sexually on a stage. She is so powerful and contemporary, and this was about something very different. It was about withholding and it was about a kind of different sexuality.

"She volunteered to audition. She did a screen test, I didn't even have to put it together, it was very quick, we didn't see anybody else. She really wanted the part."