Freaky Tales , which premiered back in 2024 at the Sundance Film Festival , is finally out now, and one thing people have been waiting for is Normani’s feature film debut with the project. She stars opposite Pedro Pascal, Jay Ellis , Ben Mendelsohn, Dominique Thorne, the late Angus Cloud and more. The singer wasn’t approached for the Lionsgate film but rather auditioned like countless others for the role, according to directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. “She came in to audition like a lot of other people, and she just had this great presence,” Fleck said in a recent interview with Blavity’s Shadow and Act. “The camera loves her and she’s a performer. So she had never acted before, but she was very comfortable performing, obviously. And so it was great to have her comfortable on stage with a microphone. She could handle all that with grace and presence. But beyond that, the acting stuff, just quiet moments where she’s looking at herself in a mirror or just feeling anxiety about her...
