Miley Cyrus frequently appears to dance to the beat of her own drum, but revealed in an interview Wednesday that the creative direction of her upcoming musical film was irrevocably altered after a brief chat — with none other than Harrison Ford.
Cyrus recently sat down on “The Zane Lowe Show” and shed some light on the musical short, which is set to premiere in June as a visual companion to her album, “Something Beautiful,” dropping May 30, and shared Ford’s reaction to her initial plans for the film.
“I’ve known Harrison Ford for quite a while, just growing up in Disney, and been in the same circles,” Cyrus told Lowe. “And he goes, ‘So what are you up to? Are you in the studio making an album or what are you doing?’ I said, ‘Well, I have an idea … I could show you.’”
“I show him my idea of ‘Somewhere Beautiful,’ which is performing in all the forests and at the pyramids and all these things,” she added. “He goes, ‘You really want to go and set up in a forest? And do what?’ He’s like, ’You going to bring a crew? … ‘Looks expensive.’”
This was apparently all the Grammy winner needed to hear in order to fully reassess things.
“I came back to the trailer, I was like, ‘Guys, we’re not performing in the forest anymore, Harrison Ford made a lot of sense,’” Cyrus told Lowe through mutual laughter before explaining: “That’s why I want to create this film, the film is my way of touring.”
The singer revealed in 2023 that she was diagnosed with Reinke’s edema, a swelling of the vocal cords common in long-term smokers — or those who excessively use their voice — and explained that her musical short is a way of avoiding further damage.
“That’s why I’m putting it into theaters,” Cyrus told Lowe. “Because it’s something you can watch night after night after night and you get to discover and you get to feel like you’re a part of a performance, but I don’t have to tax myself in that way.”
The singer added that she has no plans of undergoing surgery for the “very large” polyp on one of her vocal cords, as it provides for the “tone and texture” of her voice, and said that there’s a considerable chance of losing those features by going under the knife.
The musical film is set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 6.