Charli XCX is “really wanting Brat to stop.”The pop singer said she hopes to “totally switch the kind of creative soup” she’s in at the 2026 Sundance premiere of her movie “The Moment.”Her desire for new creative opportunities led her to start working with filmmakers she can “live completely different lives with.”<\/p>\n
Charli XCX<\/a> is ready to put her Brat era behind her \u2014 for real this time.\n<\/p>\n The “360” singer discussed her feelings about her 2024 Grammy-winning album at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival<\/a> after the premiere of her new film The Moment, a mockumentary that depicts a fictionalized version of her Brat tour.\n<\/p>\n “Right now, unlike me in the film, I am sort of really wanting Brat to stop,” she said at the festival. “[I want to] really pivot as far away from it as possible, I think.”\n<\/p>\n Charli XCX at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 23, 2026.<\/p>\n Dia Dipasupil\/Getty\u00a0<\/p>\n The pop star then clarified that she doesn’t regret making the acclaimed hit record. “That’s not because I don’t love it,” she explained. “It’s just because, I think for all of us as artists, it’s like, you wanna challenge yourself, and you wanna totally switch the kind of creative soup that you’re in, and go and live in a different bowl for a while, and just feel enriched by that.”\n<\/p>\n Charli added that her pursuit of diverse creative opportunities has led her to take on multiple movie roles, including in Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex and Cathy Yan’s The Gallerist, both of which also premiered at Sundance.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n “That’s kind of how I feel about the projects that I’m taking on in film,” she said. “I really just want to work with these incredible directors like Aidan [Zamiri of The Moment], Gregg Araki, [and] Cathy Yan, who I feel like I can just live completely different lives with, and I feel so lucky that this film played here and that those two other films are also playing here.”\n<\/p>\n Charli has a packed slate of big-screen projects lined up. In addition to her three Sundance films, she is reportedly in talks to star in Dakota Johnson’s directorial debut, A Tree Is Blue<\/a>, and is also reportedly producing and starring in<\/a> the next movie from Audition director Takashi Miike.\n<\/p>\n Rosanna Arquette, Kate Berlant, Jamie Demetriou, Rachel Sennott, Trew Mullen, Mel Ottenberg, Aidan Zamiri, Tish Weinstock, Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, Charli XCX, Michael Workeye, Rish Shah, Hailey Gates, and Isaac Powell at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 23, 2026.<\/p>\n \u00a0Dia Dipasupil\/Getty\u00a0<\/p>\n The singer also wrote and performed an album of original songs for Emerald Fennell’s upcoming Wuthering Heights adaptation, which hits theaters on Feb. 13, and collaborated with FKA Twigs and Jack Antonoff on songs for David Lowery’s Mother Mary, which is scheduled to premiere in cinemas on April 24.\n<\/p>\n