Halsey has been making the transition from musician to film star in recent times — together with with a breakout position in 2024’s MaXXXine — however the first main challenge she shot is simply now making its solution to theaters.
Americana — a contemporary western from writer-director Tony Tost which follows a number of individuals as their lives violently intertwine whereas preventing over an costly Native American ghost shirt— was shot in 2022, premiered at SXSW in 2023 and is lastly heading to this huge display screen this month.
“I’d been ready a extremely very long time, I’d been actually cautiously choosy about what I used to be going to do for my first challenge for stepping into this world, into this house,” Halsey instructed The Hollywood Reporter on the movie’s Los Angeles premiere on Sunday. “Tony reached out and he was so personable and so proficient and I simply actually related with the script and the character. Little did I do know we had been going to be making it throughout COVID, which was a loopy expertise. And from the second I learn the script till we began capturing, I obtained pregnant, had an entire being pregnant, gave beginning to my son, had my son on set with me, and with out giving something away, it’s actually serendipitous to [her character] Mandy’s arc within the movie.”
The movie additionally stars Sydney Sweeney — who walked the carpet in her first public look following her American Eagle controversy — Paul Walter Hauser, Simon Rex, Eric Dane and Zahn McClarnon. It marks a reunion for Halsey and Sweeney, after the Euphoria star appeared in Halsey’s 2019 music video for her tune “Graveyard.”
“We had been really hanging out a bunch throughout COVID, so once I obtained the decision she was doing the film we had like simply gone mountain climbing a couple of days earlier than, so it was like, ‘Oh cool, I’ll see you there,’” Halsey recalled. “It was simply actually nice to have somebody to be taught from, to ask inquiries to — the silly questions you don’t consider. It was my first time on a film set in an actual manner; simply being like ‘Who do I take a look at? Who do I hearken to? What’s the cool code phrases I don’t know, the actor lingo?’ So having somebody to ask the silly inquiries to was nice.”
Subsequent up, Halsey is making one other pivot and growing collection Bloodlust for Amazon, serving as creator, author and EP. The darkish comedy collection has additionally enlisted MaXXXine filmmaker Ti West to direct and government produce.
“I began the pilot a couple of years in the past and Amazon wished it they usually took it and now we’re getting it on the street. There’s not a lot that I can say but it surely’s actually cool to be part of a challenge that I don’t face. It’s fairly relieving,” Halsey defined, confirming that she won’t seem on display screen within the present. “Simply behind the scenes, simply the puppet grasp,” she famous, celebrating, “I don’t should do my make-up.”
Americana hits theaters Aug. 15.