Singer Billie Eilish has said her new concert film came about after Oscar-winning director James Cameron emailed her mother to suggest the idea.<\/p>\n
The 3D film, Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour, was released earlier this week, and saw Eilish direct and produce the project alongside Cameron, known for blockbusters including Avatar and Titanic.<\/p>\n
In a radio interview with London’s Capital Breakfast, Eilish was asked whose idea the movie was.<\/p>\n
She told presenter Jordan North: “It was James Cameron’s idea. He literally came to my mom. I had no plans to make any kind of film of the tour.<\/p>\n
“And then my mom was at my house one day, after I’d already been on tour for, like, a year, and she goes, ‘Billie, I got an email from James Cameron.'”<\/p>\n
“So, then we just got on the phone and talked about it, and I can’t even believe that that happened, and now it’s done, and here it is.”<\/p>\n
The American singer, known for hits including Ocean Eyes and Bad Guy, said she loved the thought that the movie meant her latest headlining tour would “live on forever”.<\/p>\n
“I get to have this forever and the fans get to have it,” she told Capital.<\/p>\n
“It’s pretty cool that it’s going to exist forever for me to watch.<\/p>\n
“And I think what’s really special about it being 3D is feeling like we’re right there.<\/p>\n
“It was a really special tour and a show that I felt really proud of, and I’m really grateful and excited for it to live on forever.”<\/p>\n
Eilish also spoke of joining Justin Bieber on stage at last month’s Coachella festival in California, which she said was only suggested to her moments beforehand.<\/p>\n
She described the moment as a “life-changing dream”, adding that she was so overcome with emotion that “my legs gave out”.<\/p>\n
She told North: “I can’t actually believe that I lived it. I can’t even think about it. I can’t even talk about it. I can’t even look at the videos, it’s too intense for me.”<\/p>\n
Source: Press Association<\/p>\n