Kylie Jenner made her acting debut in Charli XCX’s The Moment — and she’s doling out advice to the British pop star.
“The second people are getting sick of you,” Jenner, 28, says in a Thursday, December 11, trailer for the upcoming film. “That’s when you have to go even harder.”
Charli, 33, will star in a mockumentary-style A24 film, where she plays a pop star planning to launch a global concert tour.
“Everybody’s so desperate for me to be f***ing innovative all the time — and f***ing cool,” Charli says elsewhere in the trailer. “Everybody’s, like, ‘What do you want? What do you want?’ Well, I don’t know what I f***ing want, Tim!”
Charli’s Brat era will also be featured in the film, though the project is not an autobiography.
“[This] was, sort of, based on an idea that I started,” Charli said on the “Goop” podcast in November. “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.”
According to Charli, her onscreen persona is a larger-than-life version of herself.
“I wouldn’t quite call it a mockumentary, but it’s something in the world,” she teased last month. “It’s sort of like a music 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 further told podcast host Gwyneth Paltrow that she was “in the final tweaks of the edit” before the movie hits theaters in early 2026. The Moment will also 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 Moment, Charli plays a rising pop star looking to top her viral “Brat Summer” campaign. In reality, the album debuted in summer 2024 and also quickly exploded across pop culture.
“I am really interested in marketing and how people communicate product,” Charli said on the “Goop” episode, detailing the album’s success. “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.”
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However, at the end of the day, Charli knows when to step away from the work in pursuit of self-care.
“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,’” Charli added, referring to The 1975 drummer, whom she married in July. “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.”
