PREVIEW

Billie Eilish tipped to make acting debut in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. Deadline reports that the 10-time Grammy winner and two-time Oscar-winning songwriter is set to star in the lead role of Esther Greenwood. The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the celebrated poet. Published in 1963, the semi-autobiographical work charts a young woman's descent into mental illness amid the burden of societal pressures. Plath died by suicide a month after the novel's first UK publication. Oscar winner Sarah Polley will direct the film, which is only the second significant adaptation since Marilyn Hassett starred in 1979.