Beyoncé helped Amandla Stenberg reach nirvana with the greatest compliment of all time

"I felt like the hands of God were like gently caressing my entire body and soul."
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Sophie Hirsh
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Beyoncé helped Amandla Stenberg reach nirvana with the greatest compliment of all time
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Amandla Stenberg's career has officially reached its peak and she can retire and float away into a Beyoncé-themed utopia.

On the set of the visual album Lemonade, Beyoncé paid the 17-year-old actress an otherworldly compliment: that she wants her daughter Blue Ivy to grow up to be like her.

In an interview for Glamour, Stenberg recounted first meeting Beyoncé on the Lemonade set:


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Beyoncé comes up to me, and she goes, "Hello, Amandla. I just wanted to tell you I want Blue to be just like you," and I felt like the hands of God were like gently caressing my entire body and soul, like I felt like I had reached nirvana.

Beyoncé gave Stenberg probably the greatest compliment possible, which launched Stenberg into an incredible, yet dangerous day on set.

Stenberg went on to tell Glamour that she and Zendaya feared for their safety when they had to climb up a high tree as part of the shoot.

Me and Zendaya had the task of climbing up this ladder into this tree that was very far off the ground, and we were wearing these like petticoats that were so long, like dragging on the ground and heels, and we had to climb up these ladders, and we were joking with each other, we were like, "If this is how we die, that's okay." It's okay because we're at a Beyoncé shoot, and we could die for her, and it’d be fine.

Luckily, Stenberg did not die for Beyoncé at the Lemonade shoot. But after getting such an amazing compliment from Beyoncé, she can surely die happy.

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Sophie was a Viral Content Intern for the Watercooler channel. More writing and other stuff by Sophie can be found at www.sophiehirsh.com.

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