Billie Eilish is prepared for extra close-ups.
The Oscar and Grammy-winning music celebrity tells me she’d like to do extra performing following her TV debut in “Swarm.”
“I prefer it!” Eilish stated Thursday on the opening night time gala of the Palm Springs Worldwide Movie Pageant.
When requested what sort of roles she’d prefer to sort out, Eilish laughed, “I don’t know.” Once I urged a “badass motion” film, she replied, “Positive. Some troopers in it.”
Eilish and her brother and music collaborator Finneas O’Connell had been available on the competition to obtain this yr’s Chairman’s Award for his or her “Barbie” single, “What Was I Made For.”
Additionally on the carpet, “The Colour Purple” star Danielle Brooks stated she’s hoping that she turns into quick pals with Margot Robbie and Jennifer Lawrence to allow them to star in a film collectively.
“Three badass girls,” Brooks stated. “We’re rockstars. Now we have a band and we go to Palm Springs and we’ve to prepare for one of many women’ brothers getting married. And that’s going to be performed by Jack Black – we’re doing ‘Minecraft’ collectively so he’s the primary one that got here to thoughts.”
“He’s getting married,” she stated earlier than bursting out in laughter. “I do not know the place this story goes to go.”
Brooks was additionally an honoree on the competition gala, being acknowledged with the Highlight Award-Actress for her work as Harpo in “The Colour Purple.” She stated she hasn’t gotten used to all of the accolades she’s earned. “I’m humbled,” she stated. “I’ve studied. I went to Juilliard for 4 years and banged out seven years of ‘Orange Is the New Black.’ Been doing visitor spots and ‘Peacemaker’ and Broadway.”
