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Can you believe it has been 20 years since Austin Powers in Goldmember was released?!
Beyonce made her big screen acting debut in the 2002 comedy, playing the role of Foxxy Cleopatra.
In a new oral history for Vulture, makeup artist Kate Biscoe reveals how Beyonce called out the marketing team for the movie for making her too skinny on the poster.
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“When we were shooting, someone brought her a poster that would be promoting the movie,” Biscoe said. “He showed it to her, like, ‘Do you like it?’ And she was kind of like, ‘Yeah.’ He goes, ‘What’s the matter?’ And she says, ‘You made me too skinny. It’s not me.’ Then she did this hourglass shape. And he said, ‘Okay, we’ll fix that.’”
Biscoe added, “She walked away to go do the scene, and I looked at him and smiled, like, ‘Is that the first time that you’ve ever had an actress ask to make her body bigger?’ He was like, ‘Yes. It’s going to cost me thousands of dollars, but I am going to do it.’”
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Believe it or not, it’s been six years since we’ve last seen a Jeff Nichols film. Sure, back in 2016, we were lucky enough to get the release of “Midnight Special” and “Loving,” but since then the filmmaker has been a bit silent.
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she and Bruno Mars hijacked the whole thing from headliners Coldplay — the über-diva rocked a black bodysuit in a sartorial salute to Michael Jackson’s own SB XXVII performance in 1993.It was official: Beyoncé — the day after the surprise release of her hot-sauce-shaking single “Formation” — was the new Michael Jackson.And with Beyoncé releasing “Renaissance,” her much-anticipated new album, on Friday, July 29, it’s worth looking back on how she, just like Michael, became a pop icon after graduating from teen groups to solo superstardom. Also like Jackson: She was groomed for global takeover by her father. “You can tell now just how important Joe Jackson was to Michael and Janet in preparing them for their moment — and then when the moment arrives, them having to separate themselves from their father and move on to doing greater things,” said Andreao “Fanatic” Heard, who won a Grammy as a producer of Beyoncé’s debut solo album, 2003’s “Dangerously in Love.” “Mathew [Knowles] was the same way with Beyoncé.”Knowles always had his eyes on the prize for daughter Beyoncé to become the one-woman wonder that she is today. He managed the girl group Destiny’s Child — eventually made up of Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, though there were others — which released its debut single “No, No, No” in 1997.
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Solange Knowles was nearly set to appear in Austin Powers film Goldmember alongside sister Beyoncé.The latter famously starred as Foxxy Cleopatra in the 2003 comedy film opposite Mike Myers, though a new oral history from Vulture claims that her younger sister was lined-up as a backup singer.“I put her sister, Solange, in it as Foxxy’s backup singer,” choreographer Marguerite Derricks said. “I remember Beyoncé and I giggling because she was young and everything in Austin Powers is so suggestive.
Beyonce doesn’t like when you mess with her image.
Queen Bey at work. Beyoncé’s Austin Powers in Goldmember character Foxxy Cleopatra is still iconic today as it was 20 years ago. In a recap done by Vulture, crew members revealed that Beyoncé wanted to change her poster after she noticed that it didn’t look exactly like her.
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Zack Sharf Vulture marked the 20th anniversary of “Austin Powers in Goldmember” with an oral history devoted to Beyoncé’s role in the blockbuster comedy as Foxxy Cleopatra. One of the biggest revelations comes courtesy of the film’s makeup artist Kate Biscoe, who revealed that Beyoncé called out the marketing team for changing her appearance on one of the movie’s posters. Beyoncé felt the poster made her too skinny, so the marketing team re-did the one-sheet.“When we were shooting, someone brought her a poster that would be promoting the movie,” Biscoe said.
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