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Who should play Debbie Harry in the upcoming Blondie biopic?
In a new interview with The Sunday Times, the 80-year-old rock icon revealed who she’d like to play her in the upcoming Blondie biopic, one of two films about the band in the works with Aftersun filmmaker Charlotte Wells.
“If it were somebody like Florence Pugh, I would be in heaven,” said Harry. “I just think she’s a great actor and she could do anything.”
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In addition to the biopic, The Sunday Times reported there will be a documentary about the “One Way or Another” band.
Pugh, 29, previously spoke about wanting to play Harry on the big screen in an interview at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2020, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Asked about which celebrity she’d like to portray, the Midsommar actress said, “Blondie, just because she’s so cool.”
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But Harry isn’t the only actress whose shoes Pugh would step into for a role. “I grew up pretending I was Dusty Springfield ’cause she had a really low voice, and I was like, ‘Hey, I have a low voice too,'” she added at the time. “Those two.”
Now would be a fitting time to cast Pugh, 29, as Harry, who broke through at age 30 with Blondie’s first single, “X Offender.”
Pugh also previously proved she can sing in the 2023 film A Good Person, directed by her ex-boyfriend Zach Braff.
A biopic centered on Harry was previously in the works with Kirsten Dunst attached to star, The Los Angeles Times reported in 2014. The film, however, never came to fruition.
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Blondie is set to release a new album, High Noon, next year, according to The Sunday Times. Describing this point in her career, Harry told the outlet, “I don’t have as much endurance, but I can focus my energy a lot better. The new album — we really put it out on that one.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Harry revealed she never gets tired of performing two particular Blondie hits: “Heart of Glass” and “Rapture.”
“You do songs so many times that it becomes mechanical. With those two songs, for me it’s never mechanical,” she said.
