Halsey was “cautiously choosy” earlier than deciding to make her main film debut in Americana.
The 30-year-old star options in Tony Tost’s fashionable Western and defined that she “actually linked” with the challenge, which is lastly hitting cinemas later this month after being filmed in 2022.
Chatting with The Hollywood Reporter on the film’s LA premiere on Sunday (03.08.25), Halsey mentioned: “I might been ready a very very long time, I might been actually cautiously choosy about what I used to be going to do for my first challenge for moving into this world, into this area.
“Tony reached out and he was so personable and so gifted and I simply actually linked with the script and the character. Little did I do know we had been going to be making it throughout Covid, which was a loopy expertise.”
The Unhealthy at Love singer – who has son Ender, 4, along with her ex-partner Alev Aydin – added: “And from the second I learn the script till we began taking pictures. I bought pregnant, had an entire being pregnant, gave start to my son, had my son on set with me, and with out giving something away, it is actually serendipitous to (her character) Mandy’s arc within the movie.”
Halsey stars within the film alongside Sydney Sweeney – who had beforehand appeared within the music video for her 2019 track Graveyard – and was grateful to the Echo Valley actress for answering her “silly questions” on set.
She recalled: “We had been really hanging out a bunch throughout Covid, so after I bought the decision she was doing the film we had like simply gone climbing a couple of days earlier than, so it was like, ‘Oh cool, I am going to see you there.’
“It was simply actually nice to have somebody to be taught from, to ask inquiries to – the silly questions you do not consider. It was my first time on a film set in an actual method; simply being like, ‘Who do I have a look at? Who do I hearken to? What is the cool code phrases I do not know, the actor lingo?’ So having somebody to ask the silly inquiries to was nice.”
Halsey – whose actual title is Ashley Nicolette Frangipane – has revealed that she is creating the brand new Amazon collection Bloodlust, though she is grateful that she is not going to be appearing at nighttime comedy.
She defined: “I began the pilot a couple of years in the past and Amazon needed it they usually took it and now we’re getting it on the highway. There’s not a lot that I can say however it’s actually cool to be a part of a challenge that I do not face. It is fairly relieving.”
Halsey added: “(I am) simply behind the scenes, simply the puppet grasp.
“I haven’t got to do my make-up.”
