Gracie Abrams will make her acting debut as the lead character in writer/director Halina Reijn’s next film Please, which will be released by A24.
No plot details have yet been revealed about the movie, which follows Reijn’s acclaimed efforts Bodies Bodies Bodies and Babygirl, the latter of which starred Nicole Kidman. A24 has also acquired the rights to Reijn’s debut 2019 feature, Instinct.
The 26-year-old Abrams, who is the daughter of Hollywood titan J.J. Abrams (Lost, Star Trek), released her debut EP, Minor, in 2020. Her 2023 full-length Good Riddance helped earn her a Best New Artist Grammy nomination, and its 2024 Aaron Dessner-produced follow-up, The Secret of Us, topped the U.K. charts and hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
Abrams has been off the road since wrapping her Secret of Us touring cycle last fall, but she is expected to perform at some high-profile, one-off events later this year that have yet to be announced.
In late December, she teamed with Dessner and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon to release the single “Sold Out.” The track was written following a 2024 school shooting but the artists opted to put it out last month following several recent, tragic gun-related incidents.
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