The new movie premiered at New York´s Tribeca Film Festival last Saturday (April 26). In the flick, the multi-platinum songbird plays a waitress named Krystal who meets two brothers on a journey to find their estranged father.

"Mariah said, 'This is going to be refreshing for me; this is actually something that I want', even knowing that it was a gritty, hard shoot," director Aaron Woodley told Reuters. "Some people even told me that they forgot it was Mariah Carey when they were watching the film."

"The whole Glitter experience was very, very hard to go through, but I learned from it," Carey said in a statement about her movie debut.

"She's not a diva and she came to work - and work hard she did," added producer Lee Daniels. "Because this character is interracial and struggles with all sorts of issues because of that, I thought she was perfect," Daniels continued.

The new movie premiered at New York´s Tribeca Film Festival last Saturday (April 26). In the flick, the multi-platinum songbird plays a waitress named Krystal who meets two brothers on a journey to find their estranged father.

"Mariah said, 'This is going to be refreshing for me; this is actually something that I want', even knowing that it was a gritty, hard shoot," director Aaron Woodley told Reuters. "Some people even told me that they forgot it was Mariah Carey when they were watching the film."

"The whole Glitter experience was very, very hard to go through, but I learned from it," Carey said in a statement about her movie debut.

"She's not a diva and she came to work - and work hard she did," added producer Lee Daniels. "Because this character is interracial and struggles with all sorts of issues because of that, I thought she was perfect," Daniels continued.