Bill Condon, director of Disney's live-action 'Beauty and the Beast,' says that Beyonce turned down his offer to play the feather duster in the film.
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Bill Condon, who directed Bey in Dream Girls, also directed the live-action film and can’t believe that his 2006 musical was the only one she’s been in. “Isn’t that weird? God, it seems crazy,” he told Yahoo Entertainment in an interview published on Tuesday, October 10. He added that “see if Beyonce is available” should be on every musical director’s checklist — and will always remain on his. In fact, he enjoyed working with her so much so that when he took on Beauty and the Beast, he tried to cast her. “But it wasn’t a big enough part,” Condon said. “She would have been a good feather duster.” The role of the feather duster ultimately went to Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
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