Fan Forum - Burlesque #3: B/C we want to hear Kristen sing Long John Blues!!!

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still don't understand why she couldn't have at least sung long john blues.. she could still 'lip synced' it as nikki x_x

right? exactly. absolutely ridiculous if you ask me.

and she can go down in register and do the sort of sultry, husky voice (ex: her singing what are you doing new year's eve on the armchair expert holiday special)

the way i see it, there were some egos involved somewhere along the line. and KB is just too nice to talk about it. you dont hire someone known for singing (not dancing) and then say uno reverse.

there i said it. i stand behind it too. :P

yea it's pretty clear that was what happened x_x and the movie suffered cus of it too

agreed emphatically. :nod: very disappointing.
and the time and work that KB put into this role, which was really in the end so small... well, also just disappointing.

well see how that goes... lol

i definitely didnt have this on my bingo card :lol:

:lol: def not

kinda seemed like people on each level were traumatized one way or another with the project back then so kinda surprised they would wanna do something with it again

my thoughts precisely :nod::gone:

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Hard pivot, but I saw that you did an uncredited rewrite of Burlesque?

[Laughs.] Oh, my God, that was soooo long ago.

I’m not being facetious when I say that I love that movie. What can you tell me about your contributions?

I don’t do a ton of rewrites, but that was very early in my career. I worked on that while I was living in someone’s guesthouse—this was even before Juno, so that script had been floating around for a while. You should look at some of the other people who worked on it: John Patrick Shanley, Susannah Grant….

That’s an insanely prestigious list of people working on the Cher and Christina Aguilera musical.

They had a pretty long list of writers working on Burlesque; I was just one of many who took a pass at it. My creative goal at the time was probably just to meet Christina Aguilera. Screen Gems [which distributed Burlesque] told me the objective was to get the script to a place where she would sign on, and so I was like, Alright, we gotta get Christina. I did my best, but I can’t even remember what I contributed.

There’s one scene where Kristen Bell’s character screams, “I will not be upstaged by some **** with mutant lungs!” I always felt that line could be a Diablo Cody original.

That very well could’ve been me. I used the word mutant a lot in my scripts around that time, so I will say that it’s highly possible I wrote that.

https://www.vogue.com/article/diablo...tein-interview

whoa.. all the different possibilities/versions of this movie we could've gotten..