Beyonc Knowles is breaking into the movies, and she isn’t about to settle for bit parts like her role in ‘The Pink Panther’. The singer intends to win an Oscar to go with her Grammys, she tells Gill Pringle. As a music star, she ranks among an elite group who are known by a single name; as an actor, Beyonc Knowles is still in the fledgling stages of her career. Today, she is discussing the difficulties of an international singing superstar portraying an international singing superstar, Xania, her character in Steve Martin’s revival of The Pink Panther some 43 years after Peter Sellers introduced Inspector Clouseau on the big screen.

“Initially I thought: ‘Well, maybe it isn’t such a good idea to play an international superstar’,” admits Beyonc, 24, whose previous film outings include playing a “sexy nightclub singer” in The Fighting Temptations and “sexy detective” Foxxy Cleopatra in Austin Powers: Goldmember. “But when they told me Kevin Kline and Steve Martin were in the movie, I said: ‘That sounds like its going to be good.’ And then I read the Panther script and I thought, ‘This is hilarious and I’ll be with funny people again and it will only take me three weeks, which sounds like a winner.’ Click Here to continue reading…