Adele Confirms Film Debut Without Singing: Tom Ford's Cry to Heaven Due Next Year
British singer Adele has confirmed that her big-screen acting debut will not involve singing. The Times reported on November 6 that Adele will make her first film acting appearance in Cry to Heaven, the new film by fashion designer turned director Tom Ford, but she will not perform in the role.
Cry to Heaven adapts Anne Rice's 1982 novel, set in the opera world of 18th-century Italy, following a Venetian noble and a castrated opera singer whose lives become intertwined. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays a peasant-born castrato and Nicholas Hoult plays the son of a Venetian nobleman; the cast also includes Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Paul Bettany, Thandiwe Newton, Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds and Owen Cooper. Adele's character has not been confirmed, though she is rumoured to be playing a mother.
It is Ford's third feature film, after A Single Man and Nocturnal Animals. Principal photography began in January 2026 and has since wrapped, with release expected in 2027. Adele's only previous acting experience was a cameo as herself in a 2009 episode of Ugly Betty, and she has not sung in public since 2024, when she did a ten-show summer residency in Munich and finished a two-year residency in Las Vegas. "I don't have any plans for new music at all," she told German broadcaster ZDF in 2024.
Source: The Times
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