How Charli XCX Took Off Her “Mask” for Film Acting Debut

For her big screen debut, Charli XCX was very much interested in keeping it real.

And as Party 4 U” singer’s Erupcja costars emphasized, while filming they got to see a version of Charli that’s a far cry from her pop star persona.

“I think that people see her as this very cool girl, guarded, with shades,” Jeremy O. Harris told E! News’ Francesca Amiker exclusively at Erupcja’s premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival Sept. 4, “with a mask on.”

As he put it, “the quickness with which she wanted to take the mask off and the way that she does lyrically, when you listen to a song like ‘Sympathy Is a Knife’ or ‘Everything Is Romantic,’ and you see the core of her beyond the mask, I think she brought that core out on her face and in her performance in such a rich way from day one.”