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Upon release, critics were undoubtedly drawn to Beyoncé’s supporting character but remained mixed on the film’s treatment of her. For her callback, she “went back in wearing a Pam Grier–like catsuit, an Afro wig, and had memorized every blaxploitation film ever made.” Her fate was sealed. When I left, I was convinced I wasn’t going to get it,” she told Newsweek. “I read with Mike and just tried to be the straight guy. As Beyoncé recounted in 2002, she auditioned twice. That’s where Goldmember producer John Lyons got the idea to enlist her to play Foxxy, a stylish FBI agent who used to shag Austin (Mike Myers) and moonlights as a nightclub singer at Studio 69.

Just ask Mariah Carey.) Her only credit was Carmen: A Hip Hopera, MTV’s contemporary spin on the classic French opera. (Crossover fame remained very important in the early 2000s.

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With the movie came her first solo single (the underrated funk jam “ Work It Out“) and a bridge to the image-defining smash “Crazy in Love,” generally considered her true breakthrough.Īt the time, Beyoncé was anxious to prove herself as an actress. It’s when Beyoncé Knowles became simply Beyoncé, even if it feels nothing like the Beyoncé we know today. Destiny’s Child would release one final album in 2004, but Goldmember - the seventh-highest-grossing movie of 2002 - marks Beyoncé’s transition from girl-group captain to singular superstar. “a whole lotta woman.”Īustin Powers in Goldmember, the third installment in a franchise that launched to modest success and ballooned to an abiding cultural phenomenon, turns 20 this summer. Which Beyoncé souvenir am I most grateful for? I choose what now feels like an anomaly in her rarefied, holier-than-holy pop career: Foxxy Cleopatra, a.k.a. Beyoncé has given the world innumerable gifts: the lyric “tell MCI to cut the phone poles,” the Bob Fosse–inspired “Single Ladies” dance, the infamous Met Gala elevator drama, decadent pregnancy announcements, this GIF, Coachella.

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