Junglepussy has revealed how she landed her role in Paul Thomas Anderson's acclaimed action drama, One Battle After Another — and it had a lot to do with with her music.
Speaking to IndieWire, the rapper (real name Shayna McHayle) explained that she was handpicked for the film after Anderson heard her music. The filmmaker first caught wind of Junglepussy when she toured with Tame Impala back in 2022.
"My agent reached out to me like, ‘Paul Thomas Anderson wants your number. Can I give it to him?' He wants to talk to you directly," Junglepussy told the outlet. "I was like, 'Who? OK, yeah, give him my number.'"
The two occasionally caught up in New York City for several years, and Anderson informed the Jp4 artist that he was writing a role exclusively for her.
"I didn’t know that it was like Junglepussy for real until it really got close to locking in," she said. "He gave me a hard copy of the script, and when I read it, I was like, 'What the…? What is this?' When I saw my name in there, and I saw my lyrics in there, and I just saw all these pussy references, I was gagged."
In the film, Junglepussy stars as a member of revolutionary group the French 75, and rejoins Regina Hall, who she starred alongside in 2018 comedy-drama Support the Girls.
"Because [Anderson] reached out to me directly, and was so inspired by my music, even 'This pussy don’t pop for you,' having it like as a sign in the movie, which is how I’ve been performing it for the past decade, I knew there were a lot of things that he was drawn to, and I wanted to keep that part of me alive in the role," she explained. "But I also wanted to do some things that I wouldn’t usually do, like shooting a machine gun out of a moving vehicle, like robbing a bank."
One Battle has received high acclaim since its release last month and earned $22 million in its first weekend, topping the box office.
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