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<\/p>\n\n\tCharli XCX wants us to know it\u2019s \u201cOK to be vulnerable and volatile and a mess, and that those are all just normal human emotions.\u201d This was part of her mission in making her behind-the-curtain comedy mockumentary The Moment which premiered at Sundance on Friday. <\/p>\n
\n\tSpeaking at Deadline\u2019s Sundance studio about the film written and directed by Aidan Zamiri, Charli explained why she chose the mockumentary route instead of the straight-up concert doc she had originally been offered. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve always been interested in flipping the form in any sort of medium that I\u2019m working within. So I really didn\u2019t want to do sort of like a straightforward telling of my experience through making the album and Brat itself. I wanted to approach it from a perspective where I was talking about my feelings around what I had experienced whilst making the record and putting the album out, but also kind of talking about the feeling that sometimes happens when you create a piece of art, you put it out into the world, and then it kind of becomes not yours anymore. It evolves into this other thing, and people project their own experiences onto it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course, this story is entirely fictional, entirely scripted, but we\u2019ve often thought that what we were able to do with this film is hopefully touch on something that\u2019s even more honest and more vulnerable than perhaps what a documentary might have done.<\/p>\n
Writer-director Aidan Zamiri<\/p>\n
\n\tShe said that letting go of that creative control had been \u201calmost like a grieving process, in a way,\u201d and that \u201cthis film, in a way, is about how little control you can sometimes have. I think that was a big part of why I wanted to make this film, because I really felt that I had experienced that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tDuring the three-week shoot, Charli was able to bring in friends as cameos, including Julia Fox, Rachel Sennott and Kylie Jenner. This is Jenner\u2019s first acting role. \u201cKylie was just phenomenal,\u201d Charlie said. \u201cShe totally got the assignment. She is a really great actress.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tFor Zamiri, who became close with Charli after working on her \u201c360\u201d video, the project was a great fit because, he said, he and Charli share \u201ca similar point of view, our worldview or how we see art. You have same sort of insecurities, same instincts a lot of the time. So it felt very easy to talk about stuff that felt that felt like a rumination on what Charlie was experiencing in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tCharli xcx in \u2018The Moment\u2019 <\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSundance Institute<\/p>\n
\n\tHe added, \u201cOf course, this story is entirely fictional, entirely scripted, but we\u2019ve often thought that what we were able to do with this film is hopefully touch on something that\u2019s even more honest and more vulnerable than perhaps what a documentary might have done.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAlexander Skarsg\u00e5rd plays the role of Johannes, a director brought in by the label to put a more conventional and controlling spin on Charli\u2019s Brat concert. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI\u2019d say that Johannes is the hero of the story,\u201d he deadpanned, to laughs from the rest of the group. \u201cJohannes sees potential in Charli, but she has a little too much integrity. So Johannes\u2019s job as the protagonist of the story is to kind of shave off that integrity to commodify Charli. To take the edges off, sanitize the product and make it more palatable for a mainstream audience.\u201d <\/p>\n
\n\tBut joking aside, Skarsg\u00e5rd added, \u201cIt\u2019s really just a bunch of really insecure people, and people throwing out thoughts and ideas because they feel like they should probably have a thought or an idea. You can have no idea what you\u2019re talking about, but people are reluctant to say, \u2018I don\u2019t really have an opinion on this. I don\u2019t know if I like the white one or the black one.\u2019 You have to have an opinion on everything and I think that insecurity comes across in the film, and I\u2019ve definitely met characters like Johannes.\u201d<\/p>\n
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