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How Charli XCX Ended Up in Poland With Jeremy O. Harris and Pete Ohs


Harris and Ohs on their arch new body-horror psychodrama The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick, and watching Charli XCX play against type.

Alongside The Afterparty ’s Zoë Chao, Callie Hernandez from The Flight Attendant and Alien: Covenant, and Harris’s Slave Play collaborator James Cusati-Moyer, the quintet co-wrote and shot an arch body-horror psychodrama using a loose premise and a look book heavy on Cries and Whispers imagery. What resulted is a chamber piece about a dispirited urbanite named Yvonne (Chao) who retreats to a country house where her friend (Hernandez) is residing with a couple (Harris and Cusati-Moyer) who rattle off crunchy platitudes about mugwort, organic produce, and the restorative power of a sunrise. Around that time, Harris had been hanging out with wealthy fashion types who would casually reference their tick-induced Lyme disease — the same condition that Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alumna Yolanda Hadid once compared to HIV.

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