Pop singer Beyonce reportedly turned down the role as The Wiz in NBC’s The Wiz Live! Queen Latifah was offered the role as The Wiz — but only after Beyonce turned it down.
Apparently Beyonce was only interested in the role as 17-year-old Dorothy, but that role went to Shanice Williams, who not lonely looks 17 but she can sing, too.
Hip Hop Wired — Beyonce is getting her act together. “She wants to land leading roles in movies and has been taking classes in New York and L.A. for the past year,” an insider reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.
And the 34-year-old, who earned a Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Golden Globe nod for 2006’s Dreamgirls, is moving past musicals. “Bey’s looking for an iconic dramatic role,” adds the source, who notes she turned down NBC’s The Wiz Live! “She wants to make a film that’s socially relevant to African American rights.”
That lacefront look like an egg sitting on top of her head…
I’m still stuck on that ponytail …. what is that ….. is it a wig ….
Beyonce Turned Down NBC’s The Wiz Live!
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Praise da lawd
It’s a lace wig contraption
Chile … so does she have hair left out …. lawd
Was she going to play the scarecrow? I can’t with her holler-screaming.
Similarly, that little chubby black girl from Glee can blow.
Lol the shade in that last sentence….
Apparently Beyonce was only interested in the role as 17-year-old Dorothy
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Sandra ?……
Williams is adorable as hell. She got serious babyface. Remind me of my cousin. People stay asking about her age
She wants to make a film that’s socially relevant to African American rights.”
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Uhhhh ok. Her acting sucks major balls.
How did she think she was gonna play some 17 year old girl in the first place? Bye bey. smdh
I don’t think so
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And that weird looking hairline. Lord….smh. You mean to tell me no one peeped that mess before she left the house? Not cute at all.
*sigh* I’m glad she didn’t play either role.
Honestly, Bey was not needed on this one.
Chile …. Ion know but that ain’t the move chile
@MOD are you in here? Pepsi yes or no?
“She wants to make a film that’s socially relevant to African American rights.”
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Not the move at all!!!
A lot of us had said that when we were discussing who should play whom.
She played Deena in Dreamgirls. Who was…17 at the start. She needed to gtfoh then and now
Lol
Her eyebrows…her chin…the vacant/high look in her eyes. I’m just surprised the pic is still around.
LMAO dead rofl
2 things: 1) Bey is probably too big of a star for this. 2) Bey wouldn’t have added anything that the people in the musical didn’t already add.
*sings and sways* We’re you dream girls…dream girls will never leave you…..
You saying she looks off overall ???
And yall were right. Bey wants to be Angela Davis or someone, but little does she know….not to many take her and her acting serious. Sorry
Why, because she knows she can’t act on film let alone LIVE? I don’t care how many years she takes acting classes, she will always suck at it.
Anything requiring acting doesn’t need Be-yawn-say.
Basically
If you don’t have it, you don’t have it.
They should do Dreamgirls live
That would be good too.
You can’t win chile. You can’t break even and you can’t get out of the gameeeeeeeeee. lmao
Dub10 watches that damn movie every TIME it comes ON. Every damn TIME. It’s been on cable the past TWO months. I called home night of Monica concert to check on them. Dub20 was like she in there; watching Dreamgirls for the 86th time??
Agreed ….
LMAO. That’s me and the 5 heartbeats. I watch it EVERYTIME it comes on and I own the dvd.
That would be hot. I’ve seen live renditions of it too. Good.
I only paid to see Obsessed because of ole boy and said neva again.
Lmbo
who not lonely looks 17 but she can sing, too.
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Dead
If they do Dreamgirls Sheryl Ralph Jennifer holiday and Loretta Devine should be involved.
I have a few. That. Dirty Dancing. Harlem Nights. Grease. Omg. My kids hate when Grease come on.
Now I can roll with the 5 heartbeats…I must confess, I have never seen Dreamgirls and don’t have any desire to…
NO
Beyondsay, pretty lady. Great stage performance of her songs.
But Broadway. Will put my money on Nene
I rented that movie from the library I’m not bout to pay to see Beyonce
Sheryl Lee and Jennifer done washed their hands of it. That’s why only Loretta was in the movie. Read that when movie came out.
Good. Why would they ask?
That’s how I am with Brown Sugar. I watch it every single time it’s on. ?
Chile Bey said she gon prove da people wrong lmao
Me neither I don’t like musicals .
Friday. I watch Friday every single time it’s on.
“iconic” role… my god. she is so extra… thinking her talent is outerworldly. trying to jump to the front of the line….shameful. why can’t she just be happy? get her behind out there and work like everyone else? i’m sorry, she behaves like she’s the gold standard of entertainers of color…. do actors have any way of knowing how the movie will be viewed in the future when they are making it? they probably just leave the ego at home, and do their best!
i think of my favorite male actor tom hanks in forest gump…. he couldn’t have known how massive that role was. and people still say “stupid is, as stupid does”. lol. beyonce shot herself in the foot passing on the wiz…. baby steps beyonce.
Right….
Oh my gawd. I met this guy in a restaurant back in 04. He looked like Leon in the restaurant lighting
…and that it.
relevance…..(yawn)
it looks like a male body double. ewww.
LOL @ Beyonce feeling the need to make it known that she was “first choice”…She is a narcissist to the bone….
Friday & Menace to Society….I saw sew many times in the theater in several different cities & states
get her behind out there and work like everyone else?<—I'm confused??
too big of a star for this.
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but the man whose song she tried to steal was in it???
When Hakeem was battling Fantasia Loaf and said you want my spot Flash. I fell out laughing. He got me with that one ???.
Dead Presidents too. My damn movie!
Colors..repping for the WC
I can see Beyonce saying she wants to play an iconic role while she smiles in that adorably delayed way and gazes into outer space.
Lol I should of too.
Btw I hate Dub for that Fantasia Loaf ?
THIS!
Diana Ross did it. Lol. She was mid 30’s playing Dorothy…
Well, her voice definitely improved since her Destiny Child days. Maybe a few more years practice and she will be tolerable. Not great but ok. You will be able to watch the movie and not cringe every time she’s on screen.
That last part, LOLOLOL!!!!
Diana Ross did it to Stephanie Mills. Diana was 33 when she did it in The Wiz film.
I don’t think Beyonce wanted to play Dorothy. Sandra is just trolling.
Are we gonna act like Diana Ross wasn’t in her mid 30’s when she played Dorothy in the movies??? Lmao!!! And she pulled it off… Hysterical
I think the point is that Beyonce looks 43, not that a 33yr old can’t play a teenager. Half of the cast of glee was middle aged.
Always. Lol
see pic
A goodt is a goodt song no matter whose song it is. lol
Not even a little? Dag on. UGH
He was sentenced to 161 consecutive sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of civilians.<—what would yall do if a judge told you this…I would definitely pull a Suge….that is a lot of time…
Well I guess I can stop dreaming lol
Who?!
Why yes, yes we are going to act like that….lol
Terry Nichols..I was just reading about how he wants to sell his remaining guns to give the proceeds to his victims…
right. exactly. where is the love for acting and music? there’s simply no humility w/ this gal. this girl just wants to jump to the front of line, and appear perfect while receiving and collecting more accolades. somebody needs to tell beyonce that prizes don’t make you the best, or better than anyone else.
We all know Beyoncé’s acting ain’t hitting on shyt.
But why she up there looking like a lighter/slimmer Shonda Rimes?
I died too!
she has nice tits
while she smiles in that adorably delayed way
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FLATLINE
I noticed that as well
Ion think age is truly the issue here with casting Bey as the lead star lmao
Oh…oh so she wants more “empowering” roles…Lesigh…
I don’t know why you’re confused. Beyonce isn’t that special to be trying to jump in the front of the line and demand this and that. She’s a loser for that.
That’s your contribution to the conversation ???. But I agree.
Damn…
I’m sorry but when I watch the Wiz I never once thought Diana was supposed to be 16/17. I thought she was a grown ass woman, playing a grown ass woman.
Pop singer Beyonce reportedly turned down the role as The Wiz in NBC’s The Wiz Live! Queen Latifah was offered the role as The Wiz — but only after Beyonce turned it down.
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They always try and tie her into something when it’s a hit. Next we’re gonna hear how she turned down the roles of Cookie and Olivia too, huh?
Go to the kona.
Her eyebrows are always hideous. Always.
+1
Bey people must have put this out, since nobody been talking about her. I don’t believe she was even up for the role, let alone turn it down.
Have you guys seen Melissa McCarthy’s weight loss, she looks great??
Well, she was a grown ass woman. Old enough to be the mother of a 16/17 (if she had been fast).
I always equate it to her looking like she’s staring at the menu at Mc Donald’s… ha.
Me too cuz our culture would side eye a 16/17 year old tracing off in the woods with grown azz men with costume fetishes LOL
No, the menu at Popeye’s, since that’s her favorite place to eat.
No. She didn’t. It was a HUGE joke in Hollywood at the time. She was fugging Berry Gordy and had a baby by him at time she was tryna pass off as BIRACIAL at the time. Only reason she got part. Folks were HOT Stephanie Mills didn’t get part
are we talking her acting capabilities or entertainment??…She can’t act very well but her entertainment skills are amazing…
@Just Keya……She gonna play it like any 34 year old would….terribly! Lol, Have a good one.
Crazy. Judy Garland was 16/17 but they did things to make her look younger.
Well her ponytail looks better than this chic.
Bey can not act.
lol. You too! lol
I didn’t read anything that said she only wanted to be Dorothy. I think Beyonce is well aware that that time in her life is over…
Damn…..
Exactly chile lmao
Whale he’s a man
She’s starting to look kinda……drag queen ish
The powers of Proper Puzzy Management.
She had Barry Gordy in her hot pocket.
She got a movie and a steady paycheck (see: baby) outta that deal.
ANNNND IT. …HAS BEEEEN SAAAID!!! THHHHAAAANNNKYOUUU!
and I think she did an excellent job
She starting to look kinda…..man-ish
Does the SR Critics Panel think that Beyoncé could play the role of Angela Davis?
True… I was all into MJ as the scarecrow anyway
Nope. She needs to do what she is great at. Entertaining with her music and concerts. That’s it!
She has that “don’t you ever talk – Just sing voice” – Get your IG numbers up boo!! Win that race..Kim K. winning – Oh yeah – Hey Solo and Mrs. Tina!
yes she does!!
She was supposed to be 17. It’s a whole entry on Wiki on how much her azz SUCKED. Here is a small snippet
“Critics panned The Wiz upon its October 1978 release.Many reviewers directed their criticism at Diana Ross, who they believed was far too old to play Dorothy.”
In that version, she was supposed to be 24 years of age.
I said the same thing
I’ve heard this rumor before. And as a Stan I say HELL NO. Beyonce has not seen that amount of struggle to pull that role off.
i’m talking about her acting right now. i’m talking about her turning her nose up at the wiz… especially when she says she wants to be in a black production. everybody has to take baby steps.
she’s just not humble, at all! wants it handed to her. i’m sure she regrets the decision to pass on the wiz.
I’ve read Barry didn’t want her in the movie. She went over his head to get the role. Promised Michael would be in the movie if they let her be Dorothy instead of Stephanie Mills.
THIS THIS THIS! Her ponytail has seen some struggle, but that isn’t the same. Either way, I am not for it. I’m really not for her in a movie period, unless she is singing or barely saying anything like her husband did in State Property. IJS
Maybe, by way of looks.
But she’s gonna have to talk, too. So no.
Not even with an intensive acting program?
ha!
She was still too old. Her ass was 36
Well, I wonder what Muncho thinks about this…
Other than ‘star power’, I didn’t feel there was anything Diana added that Stephanie couldn’t have.
Now that you mention I’m surprised she hasn’t popped in yet ?
If this is even true…this is SR…I agree though…
Playing Ella was one thing, but playing an intellect activist. That’s not Beyonce’s steez.
I’d like to see her reprise Billie Holiday. She does well with tortured singer parts.
DEAD
What was that line, ‘If you old, you old’?
Her country accent and lack of emotion stands in the way. If she had some good acting classes, and I mean GOOD, then possibly….maybe.
This too. I’ve read everything under the sun on why that was such a mess. It was the END of her screen career. All bc of her fuggery and insistence.
This.
32. She was 32. Dammit. ?
The ponytail is awful. I don’t understand why they do this style on her.
I think we both wrong. 33. Still. Older than what part called for. And by that time a damn mother of 3. Your behind was not believable Ms Rawse.
yes, she did. dorthy is perfect.
Why did I have to hit refresh!!!
New post: 50’s bew
amen….
That accent is what put me to sleep when I took the lil one to see Epic.
Best nap I think I ever had at a movie.
Maybe she should have tried out for a part in Spike Lee’s joke of a film, Chiraq.
I’m done with Bey in this post. Did yall see the White Hot Christmas special on Fox last night? I did not love it, but I was happy to hear CB sing the song from he movie This Christmas…But it was just ok.
The origin director pulled out once he heard Diana was doing the part. The director had done Staying Alive. He want a SANGER, not a singer.
they told her dorothy will not be able to show her tittays so bey wasn’t interested.
In her defense they casted her as a 26 year old Kindergarten teacher in the movie. Everybody gets satisfied.
Not saying she wasn’t too old, just that she wasn’t supposed to be a teenager. I do know women in their 30s who could pull off playing 24. Beyonce does in many photos…
hell no
——– dead. do not resuscitate!!!
And the eyebrows..smh. She looks like she just got done playing the Wiz
She routinely looks vacant.
She’s must be really bald headed to wear a lace front ponytail .
And Diana was like 100 lbs and could pass as that character. Also Diana took some time to develop her acting chops.
I forgot that special was even coming on. I have to try and catch it on demand.
Well she needs to start speaking up at some of these rallies everytime a young blk man is killed for no reason.
No, because she woke up that.
Beyonce IS 43!
To be honest, much of her music career went with it.
I despise Diana Ross… but, I will admit… she’s an awesome actor. Yes indeed!
Diana looked like Dorothy’s mom BUT you’re right.. she can act!!! Lady sings the Blues & Mahogany!!! Love them
No. That role would require a younger Viola Davis or someone with similar acting skills.
Quuen Baldness
Oh the shade in that last line tho? ??
Right lol
New post
Beautiful, I love Beyonce, all day, all night.
Bye & bye.
How did she get a Golden Globe nom for Dreamgirls? She barley spoke in that film.
Tessa Thompson could pull it off.
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lol..This photo will forever be priceless. She said that she’s looking for an “iconic dramatic role”…translation: I just want an Oscar. All of a sudden she’s into African American rights? (insert Phaedra’s Girl Bye face) Every time the words Beyoncé and movie role are in the same sentence, my thoughts go directly back to the scene of her bursting in the room and that whole fighting scene in that movie “Obsessed”. Her acting was so painful, I had to squint my eyes and slightly turn my head to watch it.
I was so glad when she got rid of that damn prom ponytail. shat was not cute
It’s time out for all of these remakes they need to come with something fresh. Plus I’ve heard And I’m Telling You enough this lifetime.
That lact front pony tail wig is wrong on so many level. Who told her it looked good, why they lie like that.
That cone head pony tail is horrible with the facial expression. I am against wigs in pony tails or under hats, I don’t even know why but it bothers me.
His look better actually.
interesting…. kinda…
For Colored Girls too!!! She turned down that role and so did Halle. All the chicks in that movie are still working go figure.
LMFAO,,,, tHIS IS A REAL QUESTION OR NAH?
Beyonce is an awesome entertainer and ATROCIOUS actress. If you call that “acting”
Nah her acting as anything other than wall paper is a no for me. she cannot act as anybody, not even herself
exactly. she wants to be given another trophy.
I thought that too. Like at the boxing match
Lol
I remember my timeline being flooded with bey z and the parents of TM and MB. Just saying.
Yes because of that soul glow hair do she was rockin
Me too..EVERYtime. The Temptations movie too. My kids know all the songs !
Yep! That was cute???
Love that one too!
I did a double take to be sure! The ponytail has her looking like “cone heads” Saturday night live. If you remember them.
heart beats never gets olld.
sometime the raindrops ffffaaal
I watched Jennifer’s Unsung and Sheryl (although she was trying for the cameras) still seems like she got some unresolved issues with Jennifer getting all that attention. Kinda like Bey and the other Jennifer with the newest Dreamgirls.
Not at ALL.
I could see her playing Glenda. Not The Wiz.
Baby looked good in it..as usual..but that chit was a fail in EPIC proportions .
Ms. Sandra I’m going need for you to get your eyes checked, if you think Shanice Williams Looks like a 17 year old. More like 17 x 3 LOL
Yes it twas lol
I loved when Neyo got on the radio and smooth set that azz straight. Claimed his chit and sang live on air just like he owned it. #classicshade
U.P.V.O.T.E
Being 100 lbs does not give you a pass to look 17. Diana looked 30 in the movie but she did a great job. I, personally was disappointed that Stephanie Mills was passed over again as Dorothy. If your theory is the basis of getting a roll, she is closer to 100 lbs.
She was tryna pass as biracial???oh ok
His exact quote was “You can’t play nobody’s damm Dorothy”.
?nega-tiveee?
Wallpaper ? ???well damm!
There’s no way Beyawnsay could’ve memorized all those lines & lyrics! Shanice did an EXCELLENT JOB as DOROTHY aka #DOT
$$$$$
Ain’t no way she could have pulled off For Colored Girls. Way too intense .
She looks like a brown turnip…that is all.
Ikr I just hate it when they show it on some networks they take out the scene where they are outside with their hands on the hood of the car with the police tellin them “well sang sumthin”.
So her bailing out Ferguson protesters and showing up to support trayvon’s mom wasn’t her speaking up? The thing is no one even knew Beyonce and Jay were bailing people out. When you do things out of the goodness of your heart you don’t broadcast it so people can pat you on the back. Who knees how many funerals she’s already secretly paid for.
I love Bey, but I’m glad she did.
This sounds like utter bullshit lol
That is really a bad shot of her…. I suspect that’s why it’s being used.
Bitch wanted to be Dorothy since she couldn’t she didn’t want to do it. Beyoncé is a funky ass bitch. I swear she is.??????
I hate that pic of her. The hairline, the high poiny, the brows, the chin region..something isn’t right
I have studied that hairline, what is it?? It looks like she pulled some of her hair forward over the lacefront???…Beyonce got the world at her finger tips and this is what is created. Just like music.
Beyonce please stop lining your lips like that. It’s not necessary.
Ahhahaaaa!
I like Bey, but good. It wouldn’t have been the same with her in it.
Bey is a great entertainer–you can’t take that away from her, but acting? That’ll be a big HAIL NAW!
I agree…I couldn’t imagine her in either roll
LMAOOOOOO
SR, YOU play tooo much with this picture. Lol…
I was so proud of Shanice, she did a great job
Lol but she been claiming songs she didn’t write since 2004. I remember when she said she wrote Crazy in Love. And Rich Harrison set that mess straight casually when he was talking about how his sound at the time was taking off. Lol said he played the beat for Beyaki and said she was like I LOVE IT now write me a song to go with it. Lmao and he had a day to do it. That’s why I can never take anyone seriously when they claim she writes songs for herself. Mmhm.
Showl does…
Maybe, but I wouldn’t bet the last bag of tea in the box on it.
Hope that money is well spent…all I’m gonna say…
Lawd, thank you! An actress you are not!!! But, I like a lot of your music.
Sandra sure can pick the most unflattering pics of folks…the shade queen indeed!! ??
**giggles in my hand** teeheehee?
Girrrllll…that gif is evrythang! Sandy Mae is vicious! ??
Ya better wake up cuz I need a man….and my heart is set on you ooohhh…
Grease is in my top 5!
Say it….
And that thick neck…..
I didn’t like that the producers reimagined the WIZ as a female (and a butch looking female)….so what the he** would the WIZ look like with Beyonce playing that part? Has the world gone mad?
No, she was playing the Queen Latifah part….can you believe it?
Beyonce had the deep voice to play a man.
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That’s what I’m sitting here like
Well she did it and SLAYED it. You mad?
You despise D. Ross? Why??
And voice.
Lol, she thought she was going to win an oscar..history definitely repeated itself.
That photo…. Like clown creepy…
Something about the pony makes her look older
No, smh. But I guess that woukd have been better. A smaller role.
Truth be told, her hair has been a hot mess on several occasions for her to be Beyonce. I’m still trying to figure out how and why.
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Hahaha.???
LMFAO. This story is ridic. Beyonce was never offered any role. Beyonce does not get offered roles because she is box office poison. She is expected to audition like everyone else and she thinks she’s too good for that. So she doesn’t audition.
The woman can’t act. thats all there is to it. No amount of classes is going to fix that.
You must have missed her award worthy performance in that Hip Hop opera she did years ago. She was in one or did I dream it?
You’re right. In the movie Dorothy was an adult, not a teen.
That’s right! She was a teacher. It’s been so long since I’ve seen it. However, in Lady Sings the Blues didn’t she play Billie Holiday as a teenager and as an adult?
It looks like it.
Contraption.. Lmao
They said she changed her mind about the first hairstyle and did that in the elevator. The hairstyle looks like a “That” style.
She got that Paula Patton neck..
I love her to death but it does look like elevator music is going off in her head. That could’ve motivated her to style her hair in the elevator.
I ran across that name on another site last week. ?
I remember seeing an interview of her and that was when she stated she wrote Bday in 2 weeks while she was holed up on an island. Then I see Neyo on (BET?) an interview and he’s talking about all the songs he has written for people, but one in particular that he wrote and was going to sing for himself but gave up was Irreplaceable. Ooops ?
Why does she look crazy AF in this picture?! ??
I actually like Halle’s lesser known roles. She did a good job in Things We Lost in the Fire and Frankie was pretty good too. And that one she did with Bruce Willis. She needs to learn to pick her roles better.
Really bey? U look youthful but 17 is a stretch chile. Can u say narcissist? I’m glad she wasn’t given the role of Dorothy. Lawd would have had to deal with that blank stare, she calls acting, every 5 minutes
Me too. I’m staring at it like where’s her edges? What is that in the front going across her head? Please explain…
Star is falling from the sky. It’s bout time. She can’t act and no acting classes are going to help that.
Good im tired of her
Lmao..oops indeed.