Kylie Jenner made her appearing debut in Charli XCX’s The Second — and he or she’s doling out recommendation to the British pop star.
“The second persons are getting sick of you,” Jenner, 28, says in a Thursday, December 11, trailer for the upcoming movie. “That’s when it’s a must to go even more durable.”
Charli, 33, will star in a mockumentary-style A24 movie, the place she performs a pop star planning to launch a worldwide live performance tour.
“All people’s so determined for me to be f***ing modern on a regular basis — and f***ing cool,” Charli says elsewhere within the trailer. “All people’s, like, ‘What would you like? What would you like?’ Nicely, I don’t know what I f***ing need, Tim!”
Charli’s Brat period will even be featured within the movie, although the undertaking shouldn’t be an autobiography.
“[This] was, form of, primarily based on an concept that I began,” Charli stated on the “Goop” podcast in November. “I suppose it’s [a] revisionist historical past of Brat. We prefer to name it a 2024 interval piece, and it’s form of in regards to the demise of cool [and] when one thing cool turns into business and you then lose management over really what it’s, and the way it’s introduced into the tradition.”
In line with Charli, her onscreen persona is a larger-than-life model of herself.
“I wouldn’t fairly name it a mockumentary, but it surely’s one thing on the planet,” she teased final month. “It’s form of like a music business satire. I had a lot enjoyable. There’s additionally some actually emotional and unhappy moments inside it, and I believe it’s about dropping management over one thing that you simply labored so onerous to realize.”
Charli additional informed podcast host Gwyneth Paltrow that she was “within the ultimate tweaks of the edit” earlier than the film hits theaters in early 2026. The Second will even star Alexander Skarsgård, Rosanna Arquette, Rachel Sennott, Isaac Cole Powell, Kate Berlin, Rish Shah, Jamie Demetriou, Trew Mullen, Arielle Dombasle and Hailey Benton Gates.
In The Second, Charli performs a rising pop star trying to high her viral “Brat Summer time” marketing campaign. In actuality, the album debuted in summer season 2024 and in addition shortly exploded throughout popular culture.
“I’m actually desirous about advertising and marketing and the way individuals talk product,” Charli stated on the “Goop” episode, detailing the album’s success. “I discover it fascinating … how artwork combines with capitalism as a result of it does. I discover the entire combos of these issues actually fascinating. It’s humorous as a result of as a voyeur, I’m fairly fascinated however when it’s your individual work, that’s actually private, it does really feel fairly scary to see [brands] do their model.”
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Nevertheless, on the finish of the day, Charli is aware of when to step away from the work in pursuit of self-care.
“George [Daniel] at all times says to me, ‘It’s actually simply the individuals in your life that matter [and] the individuals you spend your Sundays with and go for dinner with,’” Charli added, referring to The 1975 drummer, whom she married in July. “He’s very sensible, and I’m so fortunate as a result of he actually can calm me. He is aware of me, he is aware of himself [and] he’s actually balanced.”
