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What Aaliyah Said About 'Queen of the Damned' and Her Final Movie Role in Anne Rice Adaptation (Flashback)

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Aaliyah’s casting in highlighted her career's game-changing transition in the early 2000s. And unlike her character, a mere fictional monarch from the mind of best-selling fantasy author Anne Rice, Aaliyah was held up as real-life royalty in the R&B community by the time she landed her second big-screen role.

Crossing over from music artist to movie star was an organic, if not expected, evolutionary step for Aaliyah’s trajectory. But Akasha, the adaptation’s other-worldly antagonist, became the singer's final role on the silver screen (following the previous year’s Jet Li vehicle ).

Aaliyah tragically died alongside seven others in a plane crash in the Bahamas on Aug. 25, 2001. She was 22 years old. Three months prior to her untimely death, Aaliyah spoke with ET and shared her excitement for the future.

While promoting her self-titled studio album, she also took a moment to hype Akasha and, which had wrapped principal photography earlier that year.“I had a lot of fun doing [].

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