Beyonce Voiced Disapproval Of Skinny Look On ‘Austin Powers In Goldmember’ Poster Again In 2002 – Deadline

Beyonce doesn’t like while you mess together with her picture. 

Bear in mind again in 2002 when the world-renown singer starred in Austin Powers In Goldmember as Foxxy Cleopatra?  Properly in a current Vulture revisit of the movie, it was revealed that Beyonce needed to struggle to remain true to her and her character’s picture. The movie’s make-up artist Kate Biscoe acknowledged that the singer talked about that she regarded too skinny on the film poster. 

“She says, ‘You made me too skinny. It’s not me,’” Biscoe stated. “Then she did this hourglass form. And he stated, ‘Okay, we’ll repair that.’ She walked away to go do the scene, and I checked out him and smiled, like, ‘Is that the primary time that you just’ve ever had an actress ask to make her physique larger?’ He was like, ‘Sure. It’s going to value me hundreds of {dollars}, however I’m going to do it.” After all they did it as a result of it’s Beyonce!

Goldmember was the second film she starred in (the primary being Carmen: A Hip Hopera). On the time she was nonetheless constructing a photo voltaic profession and was on her solution to changing into the powerhouse she is in the present day. Nevertheless, it was courageous of her to talk up when many first timers are afraid to. It’s common for actresses’ photographs to be altered to suit sure aesthetics however some don’t like their our bodies to be modified in that means.  

Beyonce isn’t the primary, and gained’t be the final. Kate Winslet is understood for advocating towards such practices