Within the pop-star custom of Cher, Madonna and Girl Gaga, Chappell Roan would possibly add actress to her resume.
The Grammy winner revealed that she just lately met legendary cult filmmaker John Waters, who inspired Roan to embrace her interior thespian and provides performing a strive.
“I met John Waters final evening, which was insane,” she advised W Journal. “One in all my idols! And I used to be speaking about how there are solely so many ‘firsts’ you’ll be able to have together with your profession.”
Roan continued, “And he stated, ‘No, no, no—there are all of the firsts to undergo once you turn out to be an actress!’ And I stated, ‘I’m not an actress—what are you speaking about?’ He stated, ‘Each singer is an actress!’ And I used to be like, okay, possibly I’m! Rattling! If John Waters says I’m an actress, possibly I’m!”
After breaking out along with her 2023 debut studio album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, Roan received her first Grammy this 12 months for Finest New Artist.
In the meantime, Waters’ two-decade hiatus from filmmaking after his 2004 satire A Soiled Disgrace was interrupted when Village Roadshow Leisure optioned his novel Liarmouth: A Really feel-Dangerous Romance in 2022, with Waters set to jot down and direct.
Though Waters stated in April 2024 that he had script in place, with Aubrey Plaza onboard to star because the titular Marsha ‘Liarmouth’ Sprinkle, they “don’t have the cash to make it.” In November, he revealed that the variation is not occurring.
