Charli XCX is embracing her inner rock star in the first trailer for A24’s The Moment.
“I’ve built this tour up to be this massive thing,” Charli, 33, says in a voiceover for the teaser footage released Thursday, November 20. “Run it from the best. Is it kind of painful?”
She adds, “When I felt like people started to care about me, nothing else mattered. Nothing was more important than Brat.”
Charli conceptualized the mockumentary-style film, in which a pop star prepares to launch her first headlining tour. The Moment, which the British singer produced, was cowritten by Aidan Zamiri and Bertie Brandes.
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“A rising pop star navigates the complexities of fame and industry pressure while preparing for her arena tour debut,” reads the logline.
The Moment will also star Alexander Skarsgård, Rosanna Arquette, Rachel Sennott, Isaac Cole Powell, Kate Berlin, Rish Shah, Jamie Demetriou, Trew Mullen, Kylie Jenner, Arielle Dombasle and Hailey Benton Gates.
While few details about the film have been revealed, Charli recently confirmed that the project will debut in 2026.
“It’s going to be [released] early next year. We’re in the final tweaks of the edit,” Charli said on Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Goop” podcast earlier this month. “That was, sort of, based on an idea that I started. I suppose it’s [a] revisionist history of Brat. We like to call it a 2024 period piece, and it’s sort of about the death of cool [and] when something cool becomes commercial and then you lose control over actually what it is, and how it’s brought into the culture.”
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To execute her vision, Charli plays a version of herself on the big screen.
“I wouldn’t quite call it a mockumentary, but it’s something in the world,” she teased. “It’s sort of like a beat industry satire. I had so much fun. There’s also some really emotional and sad moments within it, and I think it’s about losing control over something that you worked so hard to attain.”
Charli released Brat in June 2024, and the album soon exploded across pop culture.
“I am really interested in marketing and how people communicate product,” Charli explained. “I find it fascinating … how art combines with capitalism because it does. I find all of the combinations of those things really interesting. It’s funny because as a voyeur, I’m quite fascinated but when it’s your own work, that’s really personal, it does feel quite scary to see [brands] do their version.”
While Charli does love making art, she also admits that it can be “healing” to remove herself from the projects.
“George [Daniel] always says to me, ‘It’s really just the people in your life that matter [and] the people you spend your Sundays with and go for dinner with,’” she noted, referring to her husband, who is the drummer for The 1975. “He’s very wise, and I’m so lucky because he really can calm me. He knows me, he knows himself [and] he’s really balanced.”
Charli and Daniel, 35, got married in July after three years of dating.
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