Cher talks about her return to movies!

Cher is finally ready for her close-up.

The icon may be an Oscar winning actress, but she’s only made a handful of movies since taking home the golden statuette for Moonstruck back in 1988. But on Nov. 24, the 64-year-old star will return to the big screen since the 2003 comedy Stuck On You. She has chosen the musical Burlesque to make her return to the big screen.

But Cher tells Entertainment Weekly that she had to be persuaded a bit.

“You don’t do a movie unless you read a script  and go, ‘I love this.'” she said. “In the beginning, I just didn’t see potential for me in it.”

She finally decided to take on the role of of Tess, a club owner coping with a volatile leading lady (Kristen Bell) while mentoring a newcomer played by Christina Aguilera.

The musical provides Cher with a chance to sing in a movie for the first time since 1999’s Tea With Mussolini in which she sang Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. In Burlesque, she gets to belt out the power ballad You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me.

“It can only happen in a musical where you just start to sing out of the storyline,” she said.

Cher, whose other past film roles include Mask, Silkwood, The Witches of Eastwick, Suspect and Mermaids, told EW the reason she hadn’t made a movie in so long was because “I did a world tour for three and a half years. Then I was really tired and didn’t wanna work. After awhile I got bored. Movies are more difficult than singing. Singing is like going to a party at someone else’s house. Acting is like having the party at your house.”

Cher, an A-list star for 45 non-stop years, says of possibly retiring: “Well at some point you get too old. If people want to see you and you can do it, then you should do it. I like writing and directing.  At some point I think I would like to develop stuff and work with other people. You can kind of do that until you can’t move anymore.”