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Beverley Knight teases first movie role: ‘I definitely won’t be anything like the character you know me as’

Connor Gotto by Connor Gotto
January 20, 2024
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Beverley Knight is set to make her big screen debut after landing her first film role. 

The Queen Of British Soul revealed the project during an interview on the ‘Reasons To Be Joyful’, but was careful not to give away too much. 

“In 2025, I know that I’ll be going back into theatre and there’s also a movie in there,” she shared. “I can’t tell you nothing.

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“All I’m going to say is in the movie I definitely won’t be anything like the character you know me as.

“I will be playing against type,” she added, insisting: “Definitely not a singer.”

Knight returned to the UK Top 40 last year with her latest album, ‘The Fifth Chapter’. marking her return to pop music for the first time in a decade.

In a. review of the album, RETROPOP said the album “plants Beverley firmly back in the commercial lane and is unquestionably her strongest release since 2002’s seminal ‘Who I Am’”.

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The album followed Knight’s 50th birthday celebrations and, speaking to RETROPOP, the vocal powerhouse admitted it’s important for her to embrace the milestone.

“I’m in an industry which has always frowned on women who get to this age,” she said. “Christ, they frown on women who get to 35, let alone 50. It’s like you’re over or you’re plateauing or you’re falling off. This is an industry that has traditionally been crueller to people who are older but particularly to women.

“So much of what is expected of a woman is to be forever young, forever useful, forever beautiful, whatever that means. But I’m like, ‘You can be you exactly as you are. Be fucking beautiful and fabulous and own it.’ Who decreed that at 50 it’s a wrap for you?”

On her confidence in embarking on a new era, Beverley beamed: “This is the most settled and optimistic I’ve ever felt. I’m a joyful person naturally and it takes a lot to get me down, so I’m naturally that person who is always looking up.

“But now I feel like I’m looking into the stratosphere. I feel as though the big take-off that everybody, God bless them, is hoping for me is right here now. It’s ready to go and ready to happen. I’ve never felt so sure of it and I’ve got a great collection of songs with which to do it.”

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