Camila Cabello didn’t need to audition for her half in Rob Peace.
The singer turned actress selected to advertise her new indie movie Rob Peace, which made her Sundance Movie Pageant debut this 12 months, on the wintry streets of Park Metropolis as an alternative of the Grammy and VMA levels.
Within the movie, Cabello performs Rob Peace’s girlfriend. Rob Peace, performed by Jay Will (the actor from Tulsa King), is a vivid Yale pupil who was up in a violent New Jersey neighbourhood.
Nevertheless, his promising future is ruined when he’s made to promote narcotics with a purpose to pay for his imprisoned father’s authorized defence.
Based mostly on the autobiography The Quick and Tragic Lifetime of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs, Peace’s faculty flatmate, it is a horrifying true story.
Cabello, who grew to become well-known with the woman group Fifth Concord, didn’t need to check out for the position of Rob Peace.
Cabello was solid by Chiwetel Ejiofor, who wrote, directed, and performs the daddy of the principle character who’s unfairly imprisoned, after he noticed her in Kay Cannon’s up to date Cinderella.
“I used to be struck by her charisma,” Ejiofor mentioned. “I knew you’d be excellent for the position. I used to be thrilled while you mentioned you’d be a part of us on this journey.”
Cabello joined, “I used to be thrilled while you requested.”
The singer mentioned about her character, Naya, “I actually associated to her and her hustle for desirous to make the world higher.”
Concerning her nascent movie profession, Cabello is amenable to any screenplay that comes her approach.
“For me, it’s actually no matter makes me really feel one thing,” she mentioned. “It’s not that thought out for me. It’s no matter feels new or difficult, or what I haven’t executed earlier than.”
