“And not only was this a vampire film - it was Anne Rice.” I was very excited to be part of a vampire film, because I've been a lover of vampires since I was very young,” the ‘Try Again’ singer explained to ET in May of 2001. While promoting her self-titled studio album, she also took a moment to hype Akasha and Queen of the Damned, which had wrapped principal photography earlier that year. Three months prior to her untimely death, Aaliyah spoke with ET and shared her excitement for the future. Aaliyah tragically died alongside seven others in a plane crash in the Bahamas on Aug. But Akasha, the adaptation’s other-worldly antagonist, became the singer's final role on the silver screen (following the previous year’s Jet Li vehicle Romeo Must Die). And unlike her character, a mere fictional monarch from the mind of best-selling fantasy author Anne Rice, Aaliyah was held up as real-life royalty in the R&B community by the time she landed her second big-screen role.Ĭrossing over from music artist to movie star was an organic, if not expected, evolutionary step for Aaliyah’s trajectory. Aaliyah’s casting in Queen of the Damned highlighted her career's game-changing transition in the early 2000s.
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