Barbie Ferreira Opens Up About 'Long' Friendship with Charli xcx: 'We Are in 2 Very Vastly Different Worlds' (Exclusive) Bailey RichardsFri, April 3, 2026 at 6:46 PM UTC 0 Barbie Ferreira; Charli xcxCredit: Arturo Holmes/Getty; Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Barbie Ferreira and Charli xcx star as content moderators in the upcoming horror film Faces of Death Lead actress Ferreira opens up to PEOPLE about working with Charli, and reveals that the duo have been friends for years Charli's role in Faces of Death is the first she ever filmed, and she worked with director Daniel Goldhaber t...
Barbie Ferreira Opens Up About 'Long' Friendship with Charli xcx: 'We Are in 2 Very Vastly Different Worlds' (Exclusive)
Bailey RichardsFri, April 3, 2026 at 6:46 PM UTC
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Barbie Ferreira; Charli xcxCredit: Arturo Holmes/Getty; Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty -
Barbie Ferreira and Charli xcx star as content moderators in the upcoming horror film Faces of Death
Lead actress Ferreira opens up to PEOPLE about working with Charli, and reveals that the duo have been friends for years
Charli's role in Faces of Death is the first she ever filmed, and she worked with director Daniel Goldhaber to shape the character
Barbie Ferreira is used to being in the crowd at Charli xcx's concerts, but sharing the screen with the pop star is a different story — and an "honor."
In the new horror movie Faces of Death, the Euphoria alum, 29, and musician, 33, play two content moderators with differing viewpoints. Ferreira leads the film as Margot, and shares a few scenes with Charli, playing the morbidly curious Gabby, whom she butts heads with.
Speaking with PEOPLE, Ferreira says it was "really cool" joining forces with Charli for the feature — which, shot in 2023, technically marking the pop star's first-ever film role — and reveals that the stars have had an off-screen friendship for years.
"I love Charli so much. We've been friends for a very long time, so it was just really cool to work with a friend who I admire and I've always been a huge fan of her music," Ferreira tells PEOPLE, citing her love for Charli's debut LP True Romance, as well as her 2021 appearance on the singer's former BBC Radio 1 podcast series, Best Song Ever.
Charli xcx (far left) and Barbie Ferreira (far right) in 'Faces of Death'Credit: IFC Films
"So it was really cool to work with her because, obviously, we are in two very vastly different worlds," Ferreira continues, "and I'm used to going to her concerts with my friends and kind of being in her element. And she got to kind of step into like the film element. It was her first time."
The actress adds that it was particularly "cool" to work alongside the musician because they shot just before the 2024 release of Brat catapulted Charli to a new level of superstardom.
"It was really cool to see such a huge pop star at the precipice of this huge moment for her," Ferreira tells PEOPLE, "because she's been such a talented artist for so long, but Brat Summer was really like, 'Wow, she did her big one,' you know?"
"And so it was really cool to work with her. She's such a star and she's just like an incredible performer onstage, offstage," the Euphoria alum says — and she has the concert track record to prove it.
Says Ferreira, "I love going to her shows. I've been to maybe 500 of her Brat shows. I've brought my mom to one in Montreal about the whole cast of Mile End Kicks to one in Montreal. I have the L.A. ones, New York ones, like … I'm just a huge fan, so I was so honored that she wanted to be in the movie."
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"It was really fun," she adds of the filming experience.
Barbie Ferreira in 'Faces of Death'Credit: IFC Films
Faces of Death, which incorporates the 1978 mondo horror film of the same name, was directed by Daniel Goldhaber, who also co-wrote the film with Isa Mazzei. Speaking with PEOPLE, Goldhaber explains that Charli joined the cast because she "was a fan" of his first film, 2018's Cam.
The pop trailblazer, the director recalls, saw that "the movie was getting made and she reached out and was like, 'Hey, can I be in Faces of Death?' And I was like, 'Yes. There is one role we haven't cast. Would you like to play it?' And she was like, 'Great.' "
For her "first real role in a movie," Charli had a ton of control over Gabby, from her clothes to her American accent, the latter of which Goldhaber says was the singer's idea: "That was all her."
"Charli came in and had a very specific idea of what she wanted her wardrobe for Gabby to be," the director says. "She was like, 'I wanna have Marla Singer from Fight Club vibes in this movie.' And I was like, "Great.' … that's just how I like to work with people."
Charli xcx in 'Faces of Death'Credit: IFC Films
Beyond Faces, Charli's film credits already include The Gallerist, 100 Nights of Hero and The Moment (a mockumentary about her experience during the Brat release), as well as forthcoming projects Erupcja, I Want Your Sex, Dakota Johnson's directorial debut A Tree Is Blue and an untitled project from director Takashi Miike.
Ferreira, meanwhile, appears on the big screen in two projects releasing in April, Faces and Mile End Kicks.
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Faces of Death — which also stars Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday and Jermaine Fowler — is in theaters April 10.
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