Model and actress Cara Delevingne stars as Elton John in a new video for her song Step Into Christmas.
Reimagining the track’s original video from 1973, Delevingne wears oversized glasses and a colorful vest – bearing an uncanny resemblance to the music legend.
The model said playing the 77-year-old musician was “a dream I didn’t know I had”.
“I wish I could pretend to be Elton every day.”
More than 50 years since the original, Wednesday entertainment Takes viewers behind the scenes as the producers try to make the set suitably festive.
It opens as Delevingne, in full costume, including a wig, tells unimpressed producers that she will play Sir Elton.
Switching between near-identical shots in both videos, the model impersonates Sir Elton while playing the piano and singing along to the iconic Christmas tune. actual movements.
Sir Elton said he had seen Delevingne at the Glastonbury music festival in the summer, where the pair discussed how they would love to work together “if the right idea came up”.
“He’s funny to pass the time, we both have a pretty self-deprecating sense of humour,” said Sir Elton.
When Delevingne was approached about starring in an original music video, the pop star said it was a “great opportunity”.
“Thank God Kara thought so too, because it turned out great.”
Delevingne, 32, said Sir Elton “has always been my idol”.
“To say that his music has had a profound effect on me is an understatement.
“I hope Elton returns the favor one day and agrees to play me in my yet-to-be-developed, written, pitched or funded biopic.
Step Into Christmas peaked at number 24 in the UK Top 40 and topped the Billboard Christmas Singles Chart in the US when it was released in November 1973.
The song is currently number 15 in the UK Singles Chart.
Last month, Sir Elton said he had. Unable to finish his new album. Because of his vision problems.
He told ABC’s Good Morning America that he lost vision in his right eye due to an infection and that his left eye “isn’t the greatest.”
“I can do something like that. [interview] But going into the studio and recording, I don’t know, because I can’t see a song to begin with,” the singer said.
But on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, Sir Elton said he was still going to make records and that he had a “musical future”.