Great vibe, says Beyonce

2006-11-28 14:23

Hong Kong - Singer Beyonce Knowles said she enjoyed working with Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy and director Bill Condon on her new movie Dreamgirls," and that she looks forward to more movie roles.

"I got to work with the best actors. They are so polished and so supportive. Usually, when you have Oscar-winning actors, sometimes they are not so supportive. But I could just watch and learn," she said in an interview published in the December issue of Prestige Hong Kong magazine.

Foxx won the best-actor Oscar for his performance in Ray, and Condon won an Oscar for adapting the screenplay of Gods and Monsters.

"It was a great vibe," Knowles said. "Everyone was just happy to be involved in the movie."

Knowles, whose movie credits also include The Pink Panther and Austin Powers' Goldmember, said she looks forward to acting more.

"It's exciting to do something new and put myself out of my comfort zone. I hope there will be more roles, and deeper roles, and this one will help prepare me for the future," she said.

Dreamgirls, adapted from a Broadway musical, features Foxx as a car salesman who worms his way into the Detroit music scene and becomes an impresario, orchestrating the crossover of black music to white mainstream culture.

Eddie Murphy co-stars as a flashy R&B singer. Knowles, American Idol finalist Jennifer Hudson and Anika Noni Rose play the Dreamettes, who start out as Murphy's backup singers but become a sensation on their own under Foxx's management.

Knowles said one similarity between her real life and her character is that when she was part of the singing group Destiny's Child, like the Dreamettes, the trio once lost at a talent show.

Dreamgirls is due to be released in the US on December 25.

- AP