She has since had roles in projects like Ender's Game, The Edge of Seventeen, Bumblebee, Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse, and Dickinson, among countless others.Īs if her filming schedule wasn't keeping her busy enough, Steinfeld made her way into the music industry after showing off her singing skills in the hilarious Pitch Perfect franchise. When she was only 14 years old, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her debut role as Mattie Ross, which launched her career even further than the young celebrity ever could have imagined. It is a never-ending cycle that is so awesome and I can’t believe I get to do this – it is so cool.Hailee Steinfeld began her domination of the film industry the moment her first movie, True Grit, introduced her to the world. When I was in the studio doing the EP, I was just like, ‘I don’t ever want this to end! I just want to live in the studio! I don’t want to do anything else!’ Now I want to go and live life so I can go back. I am so motivated and excited to get back in the studio and be able to pull from that. This whole world is extremely new to me and I am learning so much every day, but I love the idea that so much is going on in my life right now and I am experiencing so much on so many different fronts. I’ve been on this Jingle Ball tour, and I get offstage every night and look at my team and I am like, ‘All right, how many hours until the next one?’ I just love it so much and I can’t wait to release more music and perform more and it has been so amazing because I spent a couple months in the studio and then released the EP and now I am playing a couple of shows and I am seeing that this is what the cycle sort of is. So that will be happening and I can’t wait to just play more shows. I am taking a minute off with my family for the holidays and then I am getting back in the studio to finish writing what I can’t believe I am calling my first album.
With Taylor having such an incredible year, being part of that is pretty amazing.” “I feel like Taylor has had quite a moment this year and being part the ‘Bad Blood’ video and going onstage with her in front of however many people there were that night to now performing in front of crowds similar in size. I really didn’t have any expectations walking in, because I wasn’t aware of how powerful it was, but I really, really loved that movie.” I mean, I obviously knew what it was going to be about, but didn’t know it was going to be that in-depth. I was not familiar with the background of those people and those artists and how what they do came to be. “I saw Straight Outta Compton and absolutely loved it. I was a huge fan of Homeland, but I didn’t get that far into it. I feel like I would really enjoy that I just haven’t had the time to get into it. If I could pick one that I wish I could watch, it would probably be Game of Thrones.
I can never stay committed with a TV show. “I’m the worst when it comes to TV, because I’ll start with season one, and I’ll get three, four, five episodes, and then I, like, skip two, and then I can’t pick up where I left off. That song is forever stuck in my head, and I’m totally OK with it.” That’s a thing that happens when I listen to Adele.”
Adele’s album has been on repeat, and while listening to it, I just contemplate life. She’s just so, so cool, and her lyrics, her songs are so relatable, it’s insane. Alessia Cara is one of my favorite artists, and I’ve had the pleasure of meeting her and talking to her a couple of times. Beauty Behind the Madness is unbelievable. Some of my favorite artists put out albums this year, like the Weeknd.
I’ve spent so much time just replaying albums in the last two months, three months than ever before. “This year, so many albums that came out around the same time, which like Christmas came early. As her big year wraps up, Steinfeld reviewed some of her favorite cultural and personal moments of 2015 and predicted what’s coming up in 2016. Hailee Steinfeld went from Oscar-nominated actress to bonafide pop star this year, thanks to her hit empowerment anthem “ Love Myself,” catchy debut EP Haiz and a role in Pitch Perfect 2 that allowed the teenager to show off both her acting and singing chops.