Beyonce Almost Lost Dreamgirls Role For Being Too Sexy

Beyonce was almost overlooked for the role of Deena Jones in Dreamgirls because she’s too sexy, director Bill Condon revealed to BANG Magazine.

He said: “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 when you have got such a well developed stage persona, I wondered whether she could adapt to something that was so 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.

“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.”