Charli XCX has dropped one other trailer for her mockumentary The Second, which sees her query if the time period ‘Brat Summer time’ has turn out to be “cringe”.
The undertaking is predicated round her big ‘Brat’ album and subsequent tour, and is about to reach in choose cinemas from January 26.
Directed by Aidan Zamiri, the primary trailer for the A24 movie arrived final month, and revealed that the movie was made utilizing actual footage from the ’Brat’ tour – together with chat present appearances and on stage performances – in addition to a wide range of fictional backstage scenes.
Alongside Charli, the mockumentary stars Alexander Skarsgård, Rachel Sennott, Hailey Benton Gates, Jamie Demetriou, Kate Berlant, and Rosanna Arquette, in addition to a cameo from Kylie Jenner.
As we speak (Thursday December 11), one other trailer has been shared by the ‘365’ hitmaker, and it captures among the extra intense moments of the movie, together with Charli battling the pressures that the ‘Brat Summer time’ phenomenon led to.
“Hello, it’s Charli XCX, are you having a Brat Summer time?” she asks at the start of the clip, earlier than casually asking a colleague: “Don’t you assume the entire ‘Hold having a Brat Summer time’ factor is a bit of bit cringe?”
It then cuts to an mixture of footage from the precise reside reveals and fictional backstage antics, as her crew debate how they will “hold this complete ‘Brat’ factor going” with out shedding momentum.
Kylie Jenner can also be seen comforting an emotional Charli and telling her to disregard naysayers, whereas Skarsgård’s character is seen struggling to market the pop star “with out offending anybody”, and questioning if she is singing “actually or metaphorically” about cocaine.
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— Charli (@charli_xcx) December 11, 2025
“Everyone is so determined for me to be fucking revolutionary on a regular basis and fucking cool. Everyone is like ‘What would you like?’ Properly I don’t fucking know what I fucking need’,” Charli is later seen shouting in a automotive, resulting in an ungainly second together with her colleague. Try the trailer in full above.
Charli XCX spoke to Self-importance Honest earlier this yr concerning the undertaking, which is certainly one of her many movie jobs lined up for 2026, and shared the tongue-in-cheek inspiration for The Second.
“It’s not a tour documentary or a live performance movie in any approach, however the seed of the concept was conceived from this concept of being pressured to make one,” she stated.
The most recent trailer additionally comes as she not too long ago instructed followers that she was “presently feeling extra impressed by movie than I’m by music”, saying: “I’m having fun with performing, I’m having fun with writing, I’m having fun with watching and I’m above all having fun with discovering a brand new craft. These issues really feel actually enriching and instinctual to me in the intervening time.”
Different tasks she has lined-up on the massive display embody a job within the indie drama Erupcja, in addition to appearances within the satirical thriller Sacrifice, a job reverse Natalie Portman in The Gallerist, and an look in I Need Your Intercourse with Olivia Wilde.
She can also be a part of the queer fairytale 100 Nights Of Hero, and can be in Dakota Johnson’s directorial debut A Tree In Blue.
When it comes to new music, Charli has additionally created the soundtrack album for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation, which can be launched on February 11. From that soundtrack, she has already shared the one ‘Chains Of Love’, in addition to ‘Home’ which featured The Velvet Underground’s John Cale.
The forthcoming mockumentary following ‘Brat Summer time’ comes as the ‘Von Dutch’ star dominated summer time 2024 together with her sixth album, its accompanying remix report, and the runaway cultural phenomenon that got here with it.
Due to the massive response from followers, the singer had the ever present lime inexperienced cowl throughout social media, and locked in main worldwide area reveals and competition appearances, together with a mammoth slot at The Different Stage at Glastonbury this summer time.
