Charli XCX is the stuff of myths in queer fable 100 Nights Of Hero trailer

Charli plays Rosa, a character in the story-within-a-story of 100 Nights Of Hero (adapted from the graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg, which is itself a retelling of the ancient folktale One Thousand And One Nights). Per the synopsis, “When her neglectful husband departs after placing a secret wager to test her fidelity, Cherry (Maika Monroe) and her sharp-witted maid, Hero (Emma Corrin), must fend off a dangerously seductive visitor: Manfred (Nicholas Galitzine).” To comfort Cherry during this trial, Hero offers to tell her a story every night—which is where we meet Rosa. 

But as Cherry and Hero’s bond deepens, Manfred also manages to prey on Cherry’s vulnerability. After all, this is a woman who wants “to be touched,” and wonders what it’s “like to be wanted,” as she says in the trailer. To Jackson, “the sexiness of queerness and of a queer love story is that it’s all up for grabs—there’s no fixed role, nothing is taken for granted,” she explained to BFI. “Even straight people would benefit a lot from queering their relationships and looking less at fixed roles. I wanted to show it doesn’t benefit anyone—no one’s having a good time. These roles become prisons. … These are things that we’ve all felt constrained by, so I hope that that fluidity of intimacy can speak to everyone.”