Whereas we’re tremendous excited for Disney’s The Little Mermaid remake this spring, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie simply introduced us one other display screen siren to look ahead to: Dua Lipa. The British pop star has joined the solid as Mermaid Barbie, Warner Bros. introduced right this moment in a sequence of character posters. In our first have a look at Lipa in her function, she wears a light-weight blue wig and matching eye shadow, hoop earrings, a shimmery bra prime and a scallop print prime – an ideal camper look befitting an underwater celebrity.
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Lipa joins the star solid with Margot Robbie, Issa Rae, Ryan Gosling, Simu Liu, Will Ferrell, America Ferrera and lots of extra. Barbie is slated to hit theaters on July 21.
This is not Lipa’s solely upcoming movie function. She may also star in Apple TV+’s spy thriller Argylle alongside Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, Ariana DeBose, John Cena and Samuel L. Jackson. She may also document authentic music for this movie. (It is but to be confirmed if she is going to compose songs for Barbie.) Mermaid or not, Lipa’s movie profession is in full swing.
We also needs to anticipate extra music from the singer, whose newest album, Future Nostalgia, was launched in 2020. Her work-in-progress third album has “taken a whole flip as I have been working, and I actually really feel that now it is beginning to sound cohesive,” she instructed Selection in November 2022. She additionally teased, “The album is completely different – it is nonetheless pop nevertheless it’s completely different sonically and there is extra of a lyrical theme. If I instructed you the title it could all make sense – however I suppose we’ll simply have to attend.”
Erica Gonzales is Senior Tradition Editor at ELLE.com, the place she oversees protection of tv, films, music, books and extra. She was beforehand an editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com. There is a 75 p.c likelihood she’s listening to Lorde proper now.
