The couple celebrated 13 years of marriage on April 4, and you can bet they celebrated the occasion in style. On Saturday, the most awarded Grammy Award winner posted a collection of pictures from their trip to Las Vegas on her website, clearly captioned “Sin Citype
In addition to boarding a private plane for the occasion, Queen Bey showed off her beautiful tweed ensemble and red pumps, as well as a cute GIF of her and JAY-Z wearing sunglasses.
“It started a year ago, and at the time, it wasn’t a grand idea; it was a video,” Fordjour tells ET’s Kevin Frazier. “We had just finished ‘Spirit.’ That was the first visual from the album, and she wanted to release more visuals. We were discussing what we would do, what the process would be, and that’s how it all started.”
“For me, it’s pretty exciting,” he adds, of what it’s like working on such a massive production. “Your adrenaline starts to rush and it becomes like, ‘OK, what are we going to do, how are we going to do it, where do we start?’ When you get into the space where you’re so interested and enthralled with creating worlds and spaces, it becomes fun, and she makes it fun.”
Fordjour tells ET that Black Is King was filmed in several locations, from South Africa to Belgium to London, and even Bey’s home in Los Angeles.
“The tree shot in ‘Already,’ that was her backyard,” he reveals. “Yeah, that was the adrenaline [rushing] because she was like, ‘I want to shoot, let’s do it. Let’s start at my house.’ I was like, ‘Hell yeah, let’s do it!’ So we scouted and we found the tree that felt like it was the most relative to The Lion King.“
“Because it was the first video, that video took the longest to shoot,” he adds. “I want to say we shot that one across maybe like 4-5 days.”
“You have to be prepared,” she exclaimed. “If she says, ‘I just want to shoot, I think it would be really nice in a T-shirt,’ I’m like, OK, 10 ball gowns, please. Just in case! Because more likely than not, we get there and it’s like, ‘Oh, it’s so beautiful, we need something more grand.’ And we kind of allow it to shape-shift.”
Akers always makes sure to pack some extra items for Blue, too, as she is consistently surprising the crew. “The cool thing about Blue that not a lot of people know is that a lot of times she chooses when she wants to [be involved],” Akers shares. “She may see her mother doing a shot she thinks is cool. When she sees something in it, she may be like, ‘I want to do that, can I have a turn to do that?'”
“She gets up and she just kind of does her thing,” she adds. “It all kind of comes to life.”
Beyonce has unveiled the all-star trailer for her upcoming visual album, Black Is King, featuring her husband JAY-Z, supermodel Naomi Campbell and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o.
The teaser for the Disney+ project, based on the singer’s The Lion King album, The Gift, also features Beyonce’s longtime pal and former Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland, Pharrell Williams, and her mum, Tina Knowles Lawson.
The film, which will premiere globally on streaming service Disney+ on 31 July, “reimagines the lessons from the 2019 blockbuster for today’s young kings and queens in search of their own crowns,” according to a Disney press release.
Black Is King includes full-length videos for the songs Already, Brown Skin Girl, Mood 4 Eva and My Power, which features in the new trailer.
Beyonce is credited as writer, director and executive producer on Black Is King.