Elton John Faucets Cara Delevingne To Play Him in ‘Step Into Christmas’

Elton John is entering into this Christmas season with an entire new glance. On Wednesday (Dec. 18), the indefatigable 78-year-old pop famous person unwrapped a brand spanking new video for his vacation vintage, “Step Into Christmas” by which actress/type Cara Delevingne takes at the lead position as Nineteen Seventies Elton.

Within the Dan French-directed clip, the 1973 track is given new existence when Delevingne slips on a couple of John’s signature flashy sun shades and colourful, quilted bell-bottom swimsuit with high-heeled boots to lip synch alongside to the jaunty ditty that has lengthy been an upbeat antidote to the despair, wistful sounds of different Christmas requirements.

Ostensibly a behind-the-scenes have a look at the bothered manufacturing of the unique video, the brand new clip unearths two manufacturers fretting over the scene no longer having a look “Christmassy” sufficient, complaining that the balloons and pink feather boa draped on John’s piano don’t hit the correct festive tone.

However as soon as Delevingne slips into position and begins mouthing alongside to the the triple-platinum hit at the beginning launched on Nov. 23, 1973 — which hit No. 1 at the Billboard Christmas singles chart within the U.S. on the time — their track starts to switch. As side-by-side video of the brand new clip and the unique play on screens, a fan busts in with an indication expressing adoration for the singer most effective to learn, “she’s no longer Elton,” including any other layer of bewilderment to the shoot as an engineer tells “Elton” to grin.

All alongside, the group tries to Christmas-up the scene through including festive parts, but if reindeer and mules aren’t to be had they accept a turkey as a substitute.

In a remark, lifelong John fan Delevingne mentioned, “Elton has all the time been an idol of mine, to mention his tune has had a deeply profound impact on me is an underestimation. To be requested through him to PLAY him on this game was once a dream that I didn’t know I had till it took place. Truthfully, I want I may fake to be Elton each day. I am hoping that Elton might in the future go back the choose and conform to play me in my not-yet-developed, written, pitched, or funded biopic. Arms crossed.”

The admiration is mutual, with John including, “I noticed Cara at Glastonbury ultimate summer season, and we mentioned how a lot we’d like to paintings in combination if the correct thought got here up. She’s hilarious to spend time with; we each have reasonably a self-deprecating humorousness. When anyone instructed the theory of her enjoying me in a riff at the 1973 ‘Step Into Christmas’ video, I simply concept it was once the easiest alternative. Thank God Cara concept the similar as it got here out nice.”

It’s no longer the primary time John has tapped anyone else to play him in one among his movies. Again in 2001, he forged Justin Timberlake to play a Nineteen Seventies model of him within the video for the track “This Teach Don’t Forestall Right here Anymore.” You’ll be able to additionally see John now within the new Disney+ document Elton John: By no means Too Overdue, which options the eponymous track he recorded with buddy Brandi Carlile for the movie exploring his 50-year tune occupation.

Watch the brand new (and previous) “Step Into Christmas” movies under.