That'd be a lot for any actor, but it's especially noteworthy for a musical artist whose acting roles were previously limited to voice parts in the Angry Birds and UglyDolls movies. Charli is a pop star, nightlife queen, and certified cool girl, but in the past year, she's made it clear she's also a cinephile who's very interested in making it onto the big screen.
As a great British artist once said: "Everything is romantic". That songwriter was, of course, Brat-in-chief Charli XCX, who has stayed at the forefront of the zeitgeist for most of the last two years with her lime green record, complete with remixes, re-releases and multiple killer performances. And it seems like Brat summer has extended all the way to moors of West Yorkshire, where the up-and-coming film adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic Wuthering Heights is set.
Julia Jackman's 100 Nights of Hero , a fresh twist on Middle Eastern folktales One Thousand and One Nights , will be bringing down the curtain on the London film fest (LFF) at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday, October 19. Starring Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine, Maika Monroe, Amir El-Masry, Charli XCX, Richard E Grant and Felicity Jones, and written and directed by one-time BFI new talent winner Jackman, the film is an adaptation of Isabel Greenberg's graphic novel - itself a queer-coded spin on The Arabian Nights .
Everywhere you looked, it was texture, attitude, and deliberate styling. Chain belts, devil horns, sunglasses worn well into the evening - it was less street style and more like street theatre.
"I think as a friend, I was both worried about her because I'm like, 'How are you going to shoot?' She was in scenes and she just kept being like, 'Yes, I'm shooting it.'"
