Sound bite: Beyonce Knowles
The movie and what the most challenging part and the costumes.

Yeah, yes. I definitely did. When Bill, the director, when we had our first meeting he told me he wasn’t sure if I could play young Deena because people have such an idea of who I am as a celebrity and wouldn’t believe it so really you know, he told me I had to do a screen test and I was happy to do that so I found the ugliest dress and a really bad wig and I wore no make-up with really thick eyebrows in the screen test and I found the fabulous gown and auditioned for the later Deena and he told me wow, we found our Deena so I knew I wasn’t worried about that because if you can act you can act and people believe you in any character that you play. To be honest with you, me on stage is really nothing like me in reality.

There are certain, from the outside looking in, there are things that might look like similarities. But really, you know, obviously I started out in a group and had a solo career, it stops there. The dynamics in the group, we are friends, we holidayed together. We vacationed together, we love each other. Deena is the lead singer because she doesn’t have a lot of soul, she cant’ really sing, it is just because of her look. I’m the lead singer because of my voice, because of my talent. They fight over men, we would never do that. They controlled, I’m not, I’m in control. It’s just so different. But it was fascinating for me to play something that was the reason why I don’t recognize myself at all because I really became this woman for six months.