{"id":434202,"date":"2026-02-19T13:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434202\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:21:09","slug":"charli-xcx-on-the-mind-bender-of-playing-herself-in-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434202\/","title":{"rendered":"Charli xcx on the mind-bender of playing herself in The Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skirts were very much off sick at Picturehouse Central for the premiere of The Moment, a mockumentary about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/charli-xcx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charli xcx<\/a> and her seminal album, Brat. Both Charli and fellow singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/robyn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robyn<\/a> eschewed trousers in an ode to Brat summer, while Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd also rose to the occasion in a pec-baring satin shirt. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/film\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">film<\/a> is a satirical retelling of Brat mania and the perils of becoming too zeitgeisty. Charli told the Standard that she played an exaggerated version of herself, as well as \u201cplaying into this completely fictionalised version of myself that maybe other people think I am.\u201d Read: a nightmarish diva. How did she find life imitating art, imitating life? \u201cHonestly, at points, a bit of a headf***.\u201d She was accompanied by her artistic guru Aidan Zamiri, who also directed the film and led the entourage down the road for an after-party at pop-up nightclub Lost. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skirts were very much off sick at Picturehouse Central for the premiere of The Moment, a mockumentary about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[78969,5357,96,2332,128,158556,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-434202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-alexander-skarsgard","9":"tag-charli-xcx","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-film","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-robyn","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}