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Etta James recently spoke to PageSix.com about how she felt about Beyoncé being chosen to portray her in the upcoming film:
“It’s a privilege and an honor to have somebody like that girl. I don’t think she looks like me, but that’s all right. They can fix that up.”
It was the Dreamgirls star's performance at the Grammys earlier this month that won Etta over, when Jay-Z's main squeeze rocked "Proud Mary" with Tina Turner.
"I kinda have a man's voice. It's a contralto, more bluesy, religious. I would really like to work with her on that," the 70-year-old songstress says.
Of her life lessons, Etta, who battled heroin addiction for many years, says, "I can tell Beyoncé some things; some of the things I might not tell her."
Producers have informed Etta that she’ll get the chance to consult with Beyoncé, giving her pointers on both the acting and the singing. She does stress that the emotional transformation the “Dreamgirls” star must undergo will be a little intense.
“I have my own way of putting those songs over, and I was just wondering if Beyoncé could, and my son said, ‘They’re thinking about how she looks, but mama, she can really sing!’” Etta also said, “I wasn’t as bourgie as she is, she’s bourgeois. She knows how to be a lady, she’s like a model. I wasn’t like that… I smoked in the bathroom in school, I was kinda arrogant, so those are some of the things I would want to tell her.”
Cadillac Records, set in the 1950’s,
tells the story of Chase Records and it’s founder, Leonard Chess. The
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