Beyonce is Etta James — FIRST LOOK

She can sing but she CANNOT act!!!

shut up!! stop hating, give her a break!!!!! she only made 5 movies!!! she got time to improve her skills :) she has talent , well im a fan but that’s my opinion

She can’t act people - stop drinking the koolaid. Carmen - she was singing so that doesn’t count. Anytime she had to stand there and actually emote, she was painful. Austin Powers - she wasn’t funny and she had the same monotone voice throughout. Dreamgirls - again, she was NOT the star of that show, I don’t care how many nominations her daddy paid for. J Hud was the star and she shut this chick down. I haven’t even bothered to see the rest of her films….she’s just so awkward on camera that it’s cloying. Beyonce doesn’t even remotely sound anything like Etta so I hope they don’t let her sing.

I think Beyonce is perfect for this role. She’s a good actress and one of the best singers of our time. Stop hatin on her…

I love B. but whenever she’s in a movie, i can’t see it.

Why is it that whenever someone doesn’t like Beyonce, they’re labeled a “hater”? Some people need to pry their lips off her ass long enough to realize that not everything she does is good.

Her music is good, but her acting is painful. I have to wonder if the people who think she’s a good actress have actually watched her movies.

First rule of thumb when you’re a singer trying to become an actor: Do not take a role that requires you to sing, if that film is a biopic. (If it’s a musical, well obviously…)

The point of acting is to transform yourself into someone you’re not. This won’t be Angela Bassett playing Tina Turner. This will be Mandy Moore in…most of her films.

If I felt that Beyonce had any respect for acting, or had any intention of *being* an actress, I could get behind this. But it seems to me she’s just doing this to win an Oscar; you have to admit, this is Oscar bait. So was Dreamgirls.

Her most successful attempt to date was Dreamgirls. There are three major papers considered the best in the biz: The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, New York Times.

“Meanwhile, Knowles shows more flair than her character is supposed to have.” That’s all THR had to say about her role in Dreamgirls. The rest of the review was basically about Hudson.

NYT: “Ms. Knowles’s performance has been static and detached. In her limited work in movies she has never seemed comfortable with acting, shying away from any emotional display that might compromise her steely, hieratic dignity.”

Variety: “As befits a character described at one point as “a product,” Deena is more manipulated than self-driven, but Knowles is poised, quietly determined and beautiful beyond belief, blossoming from innocent teenager to self-possessed star.”

That Variety review? Is the most positive of the bunch. Which is kind of sad. I agree with the NYT review, that she refuses anything that compromises the image she’s built for herself. Beyonce is too safe, generic, and untalented to be an actress. She ought to stick to singing. The rest is just ego.

Hell to the f**kin no!

Love Beyonce but after Dreamgirls, I can’t imagine her playing Etta and doign it with depth. IEtta’s life was awful - drugs, welfare, booze - I don;t see Beyonce playing this with any depth. I think they should have cast an unknown or Thandie Newton, Halle Berry - someone with more acting talent. My 2 cents.

She’s hungry for an oscar and going about it in all the wrong ways

AND at the expense of good people like Etta James.

Damn…like we haven’t endured enough from Beyonce.

I do Love Beyone! She is great in her own right! I am truly dissapointed in the Director of this film to give this role to Beyonce. She does not look anthing like Etta how dissapointing isn’t that how a bioghraphy should be? At least there should be a resembelance. The make up and hair is a mockary! Come on people get it the hell togethor. Etta deserves a profound portrayal well before Beyone
there was Etta!!

she is damn gr8 at singin actin and everthing