Billie Eilish tipped for acting debut in ‘The Bell Jar’ adaptation

Billie Eilish has been eying a shift in her career with debut role in Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar adaptation.

While she has won two Oscars for her work in co-writing original songs for 2023's Barbie and 2021's James Bond movie, No Time To Die, she has never performed on silver screens.

According to People magazine and multiple other outlets, Happier Than Ever singer is set to make acting debut in director Sarah Polley’s retake on Plath's classic novel.

Bell Jar is the only novel Plath wrote and published before her death by suicide at age 30.

It’s a story of a brilliant young artists who is dealing with mental illness. It tackles with the themes of like feminism, societal pressures, and ambition.

All in all, it is a "deep dive into a mind capable of so much being gradually reduced to so little."

According to Deadline, Eilish will portray the movie's lead character Esther Greenwood, who struggles with her mental health after she takes on a position at a magazine in New York City.

The movie would mark her big screen debut, meanwhile, she has made her television acting debut in an episode of the 2023 Prime Video series Swarm.

While, the rumours of her debut are still in their air, Her 3D concert documentary collaboration with James Cameron, Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft, will release in theatres on May 8.

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