Adele lands first ever acting role with Oscar

Adele is finally taking her talents to the big screen — and she’s chosen a suitably big-name director for her first film.

The singer, 37, is set to star in Cry to Heaven, the long-awaited new film from Tom Ford, marking the designer-director’s first feature in nearly a decade.

Adapted from Anne Rice’s 1982 novel of the same name, Cry to Heaven is set in 18th-century Italy and tells the story of a Venetian nobleman and a castrato singer whose lives intertwine amid the sensual and treacherous world of opera.

Adele joins an extraordinary ensemble that includes Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Colin Firth, Thandiwe Newton, Ciarán Hinds, and Hunter Schafer — a cast that suggests Ford isn’t holding anything back in his return to cinema.

Ford has written the screenplay himself and will d