Billie Eilish might make her huge display performing debut in an adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s basic novel The Bell Jar helmed by Ladies Speaking’s Sarah Polley.
The singer is reportedly in superior talks to tackle the lead function within the undertaking. She beforehand acted in 2023 TV collection Swarm, co-created by Donald Glover.
“I used to say that I hated performing,” Eilish as soon as mentioned in a Saturday Night time Reside monologue. “However the fact is, once I was little I liked it! My mother and pop had been each actors. So is my brother, Finneas. And it was my dream to be in a film.”
Author-director Polley gained the Oscar for greatest tailored screenplay for Ladies Speaking, which was additionally nominated for greatest image. She was beforehand hooked up to a reside motion remake of Bambi however then left the undertaking. She has since written the screenplay for household drama & Sons and her different directorial credit embody Take This Waltz and Away From Right here.
Her adaptation of The Bell Jar isn’t the primary time Plath’s solely novel has been tailored for movie, however a beforehand launched movie model in 1979 attracted adverse evaluations.
Launched the month earlier than Plath’s suicide aged 30, The Bell Jar semi-autobiographically follows a younger author coping with psychological sickness within the Fifties.
Eilish may even be showing on the large display in her forthcoming Hit Me Exhausting And Mushy live performance movie by James Cameron. Initially scheduled to reach in cinemas on March 20, it has been pushed again by nearly two months for technical causes and can now drop on Might 8.
Hit Me Exhausting And Mushy: The Tour (Reside In 3D) was shot at Eilish’s four-night sold-out run at Manchester’s Co-Op Reside in July 2025.
In the meantime, final month a controversial right-wing Australian activist accused Eilish of getting him deported from US for threatening to “occupy” her mansion.
On stage accepting the Tune Of The Yr award on the 2026 Grammys, Eilish condemned the widespread operation from america Immigration And Customs Enforcement (ICE) – notably following the demise of civilians Renee Good and Alex Pretti, who had been every fatally shot by ICE brokers on separate events.
“Nobody is prohibited on stolen land,” she mentioned. “I really feel like we simply must preserve preventing and talking up and protesting, and our voices actually do matter, and the individuals matter. Fuck ICE.”
Whereas the singer was extensively praised for her feedback on the Grammys, some criticised her and prompt that the assertion was hypocritical as her Los Angeles dwelling can also be on “stolen land”, in an space that belongs to the Tongva tribe (as per Metro).
Pavlou was one who shared this stance, and shared along with his followers on-line that he was going to squat in her dwelling to place the “Nobody is prohibited on stolen land” feedback “to the take a look at”.
On-line, he alleged that the undertaking was going to be “efficiency artwork”, and later gave an replace saying that he had been stopped by border drive officers, detained for over 24 hours, and made to go away the nation.
He was despatched again to Australia as he had not arrived on a enterprise visa, and later made a GoFundMe web page to attempt to pay for his return flights. This web page was later taken down because it breached tips.
