Aaliyah Was Not Too Young For The Role of Alex Munday

 

Story by: Gail Nobles first published 2/20/23

It is said Aaliyah almost played Alex Munday in Charlie's Angels. It is also said that when the movie Charlie's Angels came out in August of 2000, Aaliyah was 21. The studio felt she was too young and the role of Alex Munday went to Lucy Liu.

If Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Jaclyn Smith were in their 20s in the 1976 television series Charlie's Angels, I know Aaliyah was not too young to play Alex Munday for the movie Charlie's Angels. Hollywood knows how to make a woman look much older.

Diana Ross played Dorothy in the movie The Wiz, and she was older than a teenage Dorothy. If I'm not mistaken, she was in her 30's.

John Amos was 19 years younger than Esther Rolle in the comedy series Good Times. There were no complaints about that. Who noticed anyway?

It's like Aaliyah said. Age Ain't Nothing But A Number.