US actress and singer Selena Gomez says she wants to focus on her acting career. Photo: AFP
Actor and singer Selena Gomez told the hosts of the Smartless podcast that she wants to focus on her acting career and hinted at concluding her music career with a final album.
“I do feel like I have one more album in me,” she told hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett.
The Only Murders In The Building Star shared that, since a young age, she wanted to be a “serious actress” and added that “the older I get the more I’m kind of like, I would like to find something to just settle on.”
Gomez also spoke openly about the toll that juggling acting and music careers has had on her mental health – struggles that she talked about in the 2022 docuseries Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me.
“I’m going to want to chill because I’m tired,” she said during the episode.
Gomez began making music in the late 2000s, when Disney approached her to create an album during her time on the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards Of Waverly Place.”
“I thought it would be fun and I thought more than anything it would be a hobby that I really enjoyed,” she said of the career pivot. “I wanted to be an actress. I never really intended on being a singer full-time but apparently that hobby turned into something else.”
Since 2013, Gomez has released three studio albums and earned two Grammy nominations, including one for best Latin pop album in 2022 for her Spanish-language EP Revelacion.
She’s also received two Emmy nominations as an executive producer for her Hulu series Only Murders In The Building.
She has also appeared in movies including Spring Breakers and A Rainy Day In New York. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
