bboy87 said:

I noticed that too

I've liked Tina Turner's over-the-top performances in things like "Tommy" and "Mad max: Beyond the Thunderdome." She was offered Oprah's part in "The Color Purple," but turned it down, saying she already lived it and didn't want to reinact it for a movie.

Grace Jones was very striking in a James Bond movie I remember seeing when I was a teen, the one with the Duran Duran song in it. I found her comedic role with Eartha Kitt in an Eddie Murphy movie a few years later a bit corny though.

Annie Lennox had some dramatic potential, I think we could all tell from the Eurythmics' videos. In her first role, in Al Pacino's "Revolution," she was way underused however and then, later, she was in an awful made-for-TV movie that was a Harold Pinter play that no American could either understand or sit through. Yawn.

sextonseven said:

You know me so well.

Ya know, I once rented Book of Life just to see PJ (although that was a very bad-hair period for her). I FF'd to her scenes, but I remember very little about her performance. Wouldn't surprise me if she sucked, though; most musicians couldn't act their way out of a paper bag. Another who could benefit from some lessons:

Ace said:

I watched The Book of Life 1.5 times (the first time I fell asleep ) and I remember it being very apparent that PJ could not act. I went to see her live around the time that the movie was released and Martin Donovan (the actor that played Jesus in the movie) walked into the venue right in front of me.

I thought Russell Crowe started out in a band....

Graycap23 said:

He did. "The Counting Russells".

yeah i think you are right, crowe did start off in a band (cant remember the name of them though)

i cant believe david bowie isnt on here...the man is an extremely good actor (his film with takeshi kitano in a japanese POW camp is immense), and an amazing mime artist too.

Timmy84 said:

Best musician that became an actor ever:

Thibaut said:

I'll take Russell Crowe.....

Russell Crowe is not a well known music artist.

Cinnie said:

Does that make him NOT a former musician?

MuthaFunka said:

Definitely. Most music stars who are called good actors are usually only passable at best. Will Smith definitely falls into that category (and there's many times when he's downright embarrassing). Mos Def is the exception. You don't have to make allowances for him. He can genuinely hold his own. Most of his peers are perpetrating frauds when they work as "actors".

Other exceptions would be Cher and (maybe) Tupac, but I only ever saw him play himself.

Graycap23 said:

It makes him not worth mentioning in this thread called "the acting skills of well known music artists".

Cinnie said:

...looks like I mentioned him.

Cinnie said:

One could argue that rappers don't make MUSIC.

Graycap23 said:

"oops"

This wonderful young lady



RIP Aaliyah

John Doe (far right) from X does pretty well as an actor.

The best EVER: Frank Sinatra

He won an Oscar for From Here to Eternity and did the the damn thing in Manchurian Candidate. His Tony Rome character was straight pimpin'. He was also great in musicals but that's a given.

What do people think of Björk as an actress?

sextonseven said:

Ooh, good call! :waynecampbell:

SCNDLS said:

Sinatra was just flat-out cool.

What do people think of Michael Jackson as an actor?

Cinnie said:

You also forgot his wonderful performance in the awe inspiring Captain EO!!

estelle81 said:

I remember that thread saying "would she have been more successful than beyonce" where most of us agreed she would have completely over taken her with movies if not music.

bboy87 said:

Yeah that performance sure registered an Oscar.

Timmy84 said:

Oh shit! I actually saw that one at Disneyland!

Cinnie said:

I had to watch it on MTV

I remember being eight and waiting for it to have its ONE TIME ONLY TV AIRING on MTV in June '95. Recorded on a VHS and watched it every day for a week


one day, I go get the tape and find my brother recorded over it with some Cinemax porn!

bboy87 said:

You too?

I saw it one time and was, I gotta admit, a little squeamish after looking at it.