The singer wants to &34;pivot as far away from it as possible,&34; she said at the 2026 Sundance premiere of her new mockumentary, &34;The Moment.&34; Charli XCX is ready for Brat to be over — for real this time The singer wants to &34;pivot as far away from it as possible,&34; she said at the 2026 Sundance premiere of her new mockumentary, &34;The Moment.&34; By Wesley Stenzel :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/WesleyStenzelauthorphoto32b61793a2784639af623f2ae091477e.jpg) Wesley Stenzel is a news writer at . He began writing for EW in 2022. EW's editorial guidelines January 24, 2026 4:39 p.m.

The singer wants to "pivot as far away from it as possible," she said at the 2026 Sundance premiere of her new mockumentary, "The Moment."

Charli XCX is ready for Brat to be over — for real this time

The singer wants to "pivot as far away from it as possible," she said at the 2026 Sundance premiere of her new mockumentary, "The Moment."

By Wesley Stenzel

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January 24, 2026 4:39 p.m. ET

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- 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."

Charli XCX is ready to put her *Brat *era behind her — for real this time.

The "360" singer discussed her feelings about her 2024 Grammy-winning album at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival after the premiere of her new film *The Moment*, a mockumentary that depicts a fictionalized version of her *Brat* tour.

"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."

Charli XCX at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 23, 2026.

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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."

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.

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"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."

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*, and is also reportedly producing and starring in the next movie from *Audition* director Takashi Miike.

Rosanna Arquette, Kate Berlant, Jamie Demetriou, Rachel Sennott, Trew Mullen, Mel Ottenberg, Aidan Zamiri, Tish Weinstock, Alexander Skarsgård, Charli XCX, Michael Workeye, Rish Shah, Hailey Gates, and Isaac Powell at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 23, 2026.

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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.

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*The Moment* also stars Rosanna Arquette, Kate Berlant, Jamie Demetriou, Hailey Benton Gates, Isaac Powell, and Alexander Skarsgård. The film hits theaters on Jan. 30.

*Additional reporting by Mike Miller.***

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