YouTubeWill Adele's music comeback be followed by a big screen acting debut?
The 27-year-old, who won an Oscar for her 2012 James Bond movie theme song "Skyfall," recently stirred many feelings within scores of fans with both her singing and acting performance in director Xavier Dolan's music video for "Hello," the singer's first single in three years. But can she do it again on a larger scale?
Adele is reportedly in talks to appear in the French-Canadian director's new project and English-language film directing debut The Death And Life Of John F. Donovan, Deadline and Screen Daily reported on Wednesday. The singer and director have not commented.
"I'm sure I'll get some flak for this but I actually would like to act," Adele said on KISS FM in her native England, a week after the "Hello" video was released.
She said Dolan is "truly, truly" amazing" and that his movies are "incredible."
"I would be in a film for him, definitely," she said.
The Death And Life Of John F. Donovan is about an American movie star who had an 11-year-old pen pal, also an actor. After their correspondence becomes public, he is faced with accusations that threaten his career.
The film stars Kit Harington, aka Game of Thrones' Jon Snow as the star, Jessica Chastain as a gossip magazine editor, Kathy Bates and Susan Sarandon.
"It is a movie about a man trying to make it, trying to live his dream and his life all at once, and being told that he basically can't," Dolan said in a statement posted by Indiewire last week. "It also is about a kid dreaming of having this man's life for all the wrong reasons, not realizing how painful it actually is. I was that kid, writing love letters to actors—as a matter of fact it seems like I still am. And that story is a tribute to both the kid I was and the idols of my childhood—some died, some just disappeared without a trace, because they didn't fit."