Beyoncé Called Out ‘Austin Powers’ Poster for Making Her Too Skinny, Marketing Fixed It: ‘It’s Not Me’
variety.comZack Sharf Vulture marked the 20th anniversary of “Austin Powers in Goldmember” with an oral history devoted to Beyoncé’s role in the blockbuster comedy as Foxxy Cleopatra.
One of the biggest revelations comes courtesy of the film’s makeup artist Kate Biscoe, who revealed that Beyoncé called out the marketing team for changing her appearance on one of the movie’s posters.
Beyoncé felt the poster made her too skinny, so the marketing team re-did the one-sheet.“When we were shooting, someone brought her a poster that would be promoting the movie,” Biscoe said. “He showed it to her, like, ‘Do you like it?’ And she was kind of like, ‘Yeah.’ He goes, ‘What’s the matter?’ And she says, ‘You made me too skinny.
It’s not me.’ Then she did this hourglass shape. And he said, ‘Okay, we’ll fix that.’” Briscoe added, “She walked away to go do the scene, and I looked at him and smiled, like, ‘Is that the first time that you’ve ever had an actress ask to make her body bigger?’ He was like, ‘Yes.
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