Will there be fireworks if Katy Perry joins Orlando on big screen?
KATY Perry never stands still, and now she has revealed that she wants to be just as big a hit in the acting world as she is as a singer. The Firework singer, pictured, has an ‘in’ to Hollywood through dating Orlando Bloom, and was previously married to Russell Brand
And the 33-year-old pop superstar told Nova DJ Kent ‘Smallzy’ Small: ‘It’s time for me to live my life on my own schedule and terms, so that may look like doing some kind of other class, or maybe I’d like to make a film in the future finally, doing a kind of separate thing.’
The singer is particularly keen to work on something light-hearted and could see herself in a best friend role. She added: ‘I would do a comedy. But it has to be in the vein of a Kristen Wiig or a Jenny Slate, super dry, a little bit of a dark comedy, like a Bridesmaids girl, like number four.’
Meanwhile, Katy recently admitted she has suffered with ‘situational depression’, and reached a low last year when her album Witness didn’t receive as positive a reception as she’d expected.
She said: ‘I had bouts of situational depression. My heart was broken last year because, unknowingly, I put so much validity in the reaction of the public, and the public didn’t react in the way I had expected to. Which broke my heart.’
But the singer decided to go to the Hoffman Institute, a personal growth retreat in California, to give her ‘a new foundation.’
She said: ‘For years, my friends would go and come back completely rejuvenated, and I wanted to go, too. I was ready to let go of anything that was holding me back from being my ultimate self.
‘Music is my first love and I think it was the universe saying, “OK, you speak all of this language about selflove and authenticity, but we are going to put you through another test and take away any kind of validating blankie. Then we’ll see how much you do truly love yourself.”
‘That brokenness, plus me opening up to a greater, higher power and reconnecting with divinity, gave me a wholeness I never had.’
Speaking about the retreat, she added: ‘I recommend it to everyone, my good friends and other artists who are looking for a breakthrough.
‘There are a lot of people who are self-medicating through validation in audiences, through substances, through continually running away from their realities – denial, withdrawal. I did that for a long, long time too... The biggest lie that we’ve ever been sold is that we as artists have to stay in pain to create.’