Dua Lipa Calls Barbie, Argylle Co-Star John Cena Her ‘Emotional Support Actor’

Dua Lipa and John Cena are sharing the screen for the second time in a year with Argylle, and Lipa said Cena is her “emotional support actor.” The pop star and Cena starred as merpeople in Barbie and will co-star in the upcoming Argylle, and she spoke with Vanity Fair where she talked about her experience working with the WWE star and actor.

“It seems like I can’t seem to do anything without him! He’s really my emotional support actor,” Lipa said. “It was fab, and he’s amazing, and I absolutely love working with John. He’s such a great guy and so lovely.”

She also spoke about working with director Greta Gerwig on Barbie, which she also contributed the song “Dance the Night” for. “The thing is, Greta just really defied all odds,” Lipa said. “Nobody knew what to expect from the Barbie film and for it to be able to hit so many chords, from it being so fun and happy and funny, to then really hitting the heartstrings and touching on something really emotional and having you, especially as a woman, contemplate your place and what’s expected of you.”

Argylle is from Matthew Vaughn and stars Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Cena, Lipa, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, Ariana DeBose, Samuel L. Jackson, Sofia Boutella, Rob Delaney and Jing Lusi. The spy film opens on February 2nd, 2024 and is described as follows:

Bryce Dallas Howard Elly Conway, the reclusive author of a series of best-selling espionage novels, whose idea of bliss is a night at home with her computer and her cat, Alfie. But when the plots of Elly’s fictional books—which center on secret agent Argylle and his mission to unravel a global spy syndicate—begin to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, quiet evenings at home become a thing of the past.

Accompanied by Aiden (Sam Rockwell), a cat-allergic spy, Elly (carrying Alfie in her backpack) races across the world to stay one step ahead of the killers as the line between Elly’s fictional world and her real one begins to blur.