Olivia Rodrigo Wants to Make a ‘Coming-of-Age’ Movie ‘Maybe Before I’m Actually of Age’

“I just love telling stories, whether that be in a song or a movie, it’s just something that really excites me,” Olivia Rodrigo said of potentially acting again

Olivia Rodrigo on Jan. 9, 2024. PHOTO: MICHAEL BUCKNER/VARIETY VIA GETTY

Olivia Rodrigo is keen on resuming her acting career soon.

As Rodrigo, 20, caught up with Variety at the Academy’s Governors Awards in Los Angeles on Tuesday, the “Get Him Back” singer addressed the “million-dollar question” of when she might act in film or television again.

“I would love to. I think that’d be really fun. I love movies, I love telling stories,” she said. “I really want to do a coming-of-age thing, maybe before I’m actually of age.”

“Maybe I am of age already, I don’t know,” Rodrigo, who turns 21 on Feb. 20, added. “I just love telling stories, whether that be in a song or a movie, it’s just something that really excites me.”

Olivia Rodrigo on Sept. 8, 2023. NDZ/STAR MAX/GC IMAGES

Rodrigo got her start in entertainment as a child actor, with credits in the 2015 American Girl movie Grace Stirs Up Success, a 2017 episode of New Girl and roles in the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark and Disney+’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series to her name before she broke out as a musician with her her 2021 hit “drivers license.”

She appeared in the High School Musical series as recently as its third season in 2022, and lent her musical talents to the recent Hunger Games entry The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, for which she wrote the song “Can’t Catch Me Now.”

“Sheer excitement,” she shared, when Variety asked how she felt when she was asked to write a song for the movie. “I grew up reading The Hunger Games and watching the movies and I love the soundtracks to The Hunger Games so it was a huge honor to get to contribute to that. Very grateful.”

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Olivia Rodrigo on Oct. 3, 2023.REBECCA SAPP/GETTY

Before Rodrigo gets an opportunity to make that coming-of-age film, she may be weeks away from a potential Academy Award nomination for “Can’t Catch Me Now.” The song, which plays during Ballad of Songbird and Snakes’ end credits, was featured in the Oscars’ shortlist of songs eligible for nominations, as Deadline reported in December.

In the meantime, Rodrigo holds six nominations at the upcoming 2024 Grammy Awards, including for album of the year for her 2023 album GUTS.