Charli XCX Will Appear in a Martin Scorsese Film

When Charli XCX revealed the cover for Music, Fashion, Film, it boasted three heavyweights from each discipline: John Cale, Marc Jacobs, and Martin Scorsese. Now, the pop star and the director have reunited for Scorsese’s next movie, What Happens at Night. Variety reports that the psychological thriller, which stars Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio as a married couple who travel to European small town to adopt a baby, will feature a cameo from Charli. The project, a co-production between Apple and StudioCanal, does not yet have a release date.

Despite asking on the MFF track “Camera” if it’s “fuckin’ stupid if I try to be a girl on the screen when I'm turning thirty-four,” Charli has had a major year on the big screen. She appeared in multiple movies last year, including Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex, Pete Ohs’ Erupja, and Aidan Zamiri’s mockumentary about Charli’s “BRAT era,” The Moment. She also wrote the soundtrack for Emerald Fennell‘s Wuthering Heights (which featured her first collaboration with Cale, “House”) and co-wrote music for A24’s Mother Mary.

Read Anna Gaca on Wuthering Heights and Harry Tafoya on Wuthering Heights: The Album.

Hattie Lindert is an associate staff writer at Pitchfork. A former editor at Resident Advisor, she has written for Rolling Stone, The FACE and The A.V. Club, among others. She’s based in New York, and born and raised in Vermont. ... Read More