http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,...7a1860,00.html

Beyonce Knowles and Eva Longoria will play lesbian lovers in a new movie.


The gorgeous stars have revealed they are set to star in sexy Victorian drama Tipping The Velvet.

Eva, one of the stars of hit TV show Desperate Housewives, said: "Yes it's true. We are talking about doing the movie together. It's such a wonderful novel, a beautiful love story."

Director Sofia Coppola is hoping to bring Sarah Water's novel about sexual repression to the big screen and is desperate for Beyonce and Eva to take the roles of a 1890s music hall star, Kitty Butler, and her lesbian lover Nan Astley.

Beyonce, 25, thinks it is time the world was treated to a classic lesbian love story.

The singer, who was speaking at a New York benefit for ovarian cancer, said: "We've had Brokeback Mountain so the time is right for this divine novel to get the same treatment."

Beyonce and Eva are said to be incredibly excited about the steamy love scenes and can't wait for filming on the project to start.

A source revealed: "They weren't at all coy about the sex scenes. In fact they both seemed to think it would be more fun than doing the same work with a man. It's going to be very hot."

The BBC's TV adaptation of Tipping The Velvet caused outrage four years ago with its graphic sex scenes, which included cross-dressing and the use of sex toys.

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i think this sounds bad.
I hope the setting gets moved to america, as longoria and beyonce will NOT work in a victorian british setting.

also i hope sofia doesn't write the script as most of the time her dialogue is a bit trite. marie antoinette only worked because there was hardly any dialogue.

It sounds terrible on so many levels.

Wait a minute, I remember Beyoncè slating the Madonna/Britmey kissing thing at the VMAs, saying it was 'unchristian' and that she herslef would never do anything like that. Or is it this time, 'art'?

It'll be art, it'll be her getting to flex her little acting muscle on a risky venture to gain some acting cred. The same goes for longoria.


Although, its probably all conjecture as i can't really imagine beyonce saying 'she can't wait to get hot and horny with eva longoria'.

this is so ew

on so many levels

there are pleanty of better hotter actresses.

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Which one's going to play Nan?

eva longoria.

does beyonce ever play anything but singer/showgirls?

Ugh, you just reminded me of Mariah Carey trying to act in Glitter

she played carmen jones, but that was a musical.
i don't know what foxy cleopatra was supposed to be. i passed on that movie.

Why is Sofia Coppola doing this? Let's hope this is a rumor.

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Lindsay Lohan and Keira Knightley are also playing lesbian lovers in a new movie.

the movie was awful but she wasn't too bad.

i thought she was alright in pink panther too, and apparently dream girls is going to be good.

it's actually not the casting that's putting me off this project

could sofia pick stars more annoying??!! jesus. eva and beyonce are the most freakingly annoying people around. eva more than beyonce definitely. this is from stuff magazine? i bet it's some jokey, wishful thinking kind of shit. blah.

i really cant see sofia wanting to cast eva longoria or beyonce in anything really. this sounds like bullshit straight from the mouth of that rat faced eva

I don't believe this

I hear this is total made up but it's funny nonetheless.

Let's all pray that this is just a rumour. I would lose all respect for Sofia if this was true.

i like eva

but i think if she was going to do it kirsten dunst would be in there somewhere.

this probably is a joke. beyonce probably said she likedthe book and it got built up from there.

I just found out that this is FALSE (thank goodness!)

Eva Longoria hasnt even met beyonce when this came up! She said it's completely false although she would like to work with beyonce in the future.

but yeah, those two would completely ruin the look and feel of Tipping the Velvet for me.
it would be a terrible case of miscasting.