Elizabeth Hurley revealed exactly why she didn’t star in the third Austin Powers movie alongside Beyonce in an appearance on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live.
The 58-year-old actress played secret agent Vanessa Kensington in 1997’s Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and had a brief role in 1999’s Austin Powers and the Spy Who Shagged Me.
However, many were surprised that she did not return in some capacity in Austin Powers in 2002’s Goldmember, where Beyonce made her acting debut as Foxxy Cleopatra.
Hurley, who stars in her son Damien’s directorial debut Strictly Confidential, which hits cinemas on April 5, revealed she couldn’t star in the sequel because she was pregnant.
Two fans called the show and asked him why he wasn’t in Goldmember and if he regrets it because then he could have worked with Beyonce.
Elizabeth Hurley revealed exactly why she didn’t star in the third Austin Powers movie alongside Beyonce in an appearance on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live.
The 58-year-old actress played secret agent Vanessa Kensington in 1997’s Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and had a brief role in 1999’s Austin Powers and the Spy Who Shagged Me.
However, many were surprised that she did not return in some capacity in Austin Powers in 2002’s Goldmember, where Beyoncé made her acting debut as Foxxy Cleopatra.
“You know what? They offered me the third Austin Powers, and I actually shot my bit, but when they offered it to me, I told them, and they were the first people who knew, other than my immediate family, that I was like, ‘Guys, I’m pregnant”.
“I was pregnant with my son and I said, ‘So unless you film it literally next week, I don’t think I’ll be able to film it,'” Hurley explained.
Hurley added: “They told me, ‘Oh, you’ll be fine, you’re so skinny.’…I gained 63 pounds when I was pregnant, okay?”
“I said, ‘No, no, you don’t understand, you really have to shoot, real soon,’ and by the time they were ready to shoot, I was literally this pregnant,” Hurley said, while simulating her huge baby bump. with his hands.
She admitted: ‘It wasn’t my fault, okay? Because I love Beyonce, I love Austin Powers, it just wasn’t my fault.”
The first Austin Powers only grossed $67 million worldwide, but only on a $16 million budget.
New Line went ahead with the 1999 sequel, which paid off enormously, more than tripling the original’s gross.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, starring Mike Myers as the title character and Heather Graham as Felicity Shagwell, earned $313.7 million on a budget of just $33 million.
“You know what? They offered me the third Austin Powers, and I actually shot my bit, but when they offered it to me, I told them, and they were the first people who knew, other than my immediate family, that I was like, ‘Guys, I’m pregnant”.
Hurley added: “They told me, ‘Oh, you’ll be fine, you’re so skinny.’…I gained 63 pounds when I was pregnant, okay?”
“I said, ‘No, no, you don’t understand, you really have to shoot, real soon,’ and by the time they were ready to shoot, I was literally this pregnant,” Hurley said, while simulating her huge baby bump. with his hands.
She admitted: ‘It wasn’t my fault, okay? Because I love Beyonce, I love Austin Powers, it just wasn’t my fault.”
The first Austin Powers alone grossed $67 million worldwide, but only on a $16 million budget.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, starring Mike Myers as the title character and Heather Graham as Felicity Shagwell, earned $313.7 million on a budget of just $33 million.
Myers returned again in 2002’s Austin Powers in Goldmember alongside Beyoncé in her film debut, earning $296.9 million on a $63 million budget.
Myers returned again in 2002’s Austin Powers in Goldmember opposite Beyonce in her film debut, earning $296.9 million off a $63 million budget.
There have been rumors for the past two decades about a fourth Austin Powers movie, and Hurley admitted in 2022 that he would still star in a sequel.
He said that Myers “is considered one of my favorite co-stars,” adding that he is a “brilliant man, fabulously kind and gentle and, of course, one of the best comedians on Earth.”
Hurley also joked, “I’m not sure I’d look good in my costumes again,” adding that she would have to come back “in slightly different costumes.”