{"id":117429,"date":"2024-04-02T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T00:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/02\/steve-martin-says-beyonces-texas-hold-em-is-fantastic-boasts-that-he-once-kissed-her\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T00:01:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T00:01:25","slug":"steve-martin-says-beyonces-texas-hold-em-is-fantastic-boasts-that-he-once-kissed-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/02\/steve-martin-says-beyonces-texas-hold-em-is-fantastic-boasts-that-he-once-kissed-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Martin says Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s &#8220;Texas Hold &#8216;Em&#8221; is &#8220;fantastic,&#8221; boasts that he once kissed her"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-01\/Getty_BeyonceandSteveMartin_040124.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Steve Martin and Beyonce in 2006; E. Charbonneau\/WireImage for Sony Pictures-Los Angeles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Legendary comic actor <strong>Steve Martin<\/strong> may not seem like the type to listen to current music, but he&#8217;s all over\u00a0<strong>Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jCOX8dT9q8M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Texas Hold &#8216;Em<\/strong><\/a>,&#8221; from her new album, <em>Cowboy Carter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fWRv6ykJjZE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong> Access Hollywood<\/strong><\/em><strong>,<\/strong><\/a> the <em>Only Murders in the Building<\/em> star called the song &#8220;fantastic,&#8221; especially because, as a banjo player himself, he&#8217;s a huge fan of the woman who plays the instrument on the song: <strong>Rhiannon Giddens<\/strong>. &#8220;[She&#8217;s] one of the great banjo players,&#8221; Martin raves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I kissed Beyonc\u00e9,&#8221; Martin noted. &#8220;In <em>Pink Panther<\/em>, I kissed\u00a0Beyonc\u00e9. I&#8217;m a very lucky man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then changed his story: &#8220;I can&#8217;t remember if we kissed or just stared into each other&#8217;s eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar, Martin was talking about the 2006 movie <em>The Pink Panther<\/em>, which starred Martin as bumbling detective Jacques Clouseau and\u00a0Beyonc\u00e9 as Xania, a pop star who&#8217;s the girlfriend of the man whose murder Clouseau is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>That wasn&#8217;t the only pop star Martin discussed in the interview: Referring to another one of Martin&#8217;s movies, the interviewer asked him if he&#8217;d want to serve as <em>Father of the Bride<\/em> if his <em>Only Murders<\/em> co-star <strong>Selena Gomez<\/strong> marries her boyfriend,\u00a0<strong>Benny Blanco<\/strong>. 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