Serena Williams spills details about her twerking cameo in 'Lemonade'
How do you end up twerking for the one and only Beyoncé? Easy -- be a strong, courageous, bad-ass with a killer backhand.
Tennis pro Serena Williams, who appeared alongside Bey in Lemonade track "Sorry," spoke with The New York Times on Sunday about how she landed the coveted role.
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"I have known the director since I was like nine years old," Williams said. "I know Beyoncé pretty well, so they were like, 'We would love for you to be in this particular song. It's about strength and it's about courage and that's what we see you as.'"
The black-and-white video for "Sorry" features Williams dancing for the camera as Beyoncé sits atop her throne and taunts a cheating man with phrases like, "Suck on my balls."
Bey apparently put a nervous Williams at ease by telling her to "just be really free and just dance like nobody's looking and go all out."
"That wasn't easy in the beginning, but then it got easier," she adds. "I thought that particular song on the visual album was really a strong song, and it was also really fun at the same time."
Serena wasn't the only notable cameo in Lemonade -- the videos also featured powerful women like Zendaya, Quvenzhané Wallis and Amandla Stenberg.
But the question remains: Does Serena know who "Becky with the good hair" is?
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Neha Prakash was Mashable's Senior Watercooler Reporter, covering viral content, Internet culture and all things Kardashians.Before being a reporter, Neha was a Mashable intern covering news and politics. Neha previously interned at AOL/Huffington Post managing content and social media for its health and fitness sites.She earned her Masters degree from Columbia Journalism School in May 2012, and graduated with a B.A. from Penn State University in 2010.
