Miley Cyrus reveals how she landed Avatar song and film roles

Miley Cyrus landed credits in Avatar: Fire and Ash and The Last Showgirl after pitching her songwriting skills to film-makers. Photo / Getty Images

Miley Cyrus pitches her songwriting skills to legendary film-makers and Hollywood stars at events to get involved in movies.

The 33-year-old singer-songwriter scored the responsibility of making the credit song – Dream As One – for Avatar: Fire and Ash after she told the film’s director, James Cameron, 71, that she was up for doing it at Disney’s D23 Expo in August 2024.

Cyrus, who was honoured as a Disney Legend alongside Cameron at the event, told People: “I kind of throw it out there as I always do. I already knew the answer to, ‘So what have you been up to?’

“I know he’s been up to Avatar for a very long time.”

The Hannah Montana actor then recalled what she told Cameron, who, at the time, was in the middle of making the third Avatar movie: “‘Just lemme know if you ever need any music.’

“It just kind of organically happened. James actually calls us ‘Legends in law’.”

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And Cyrus’ technique proved a success when she wrote the song Beautiful That Way, which received a Golden Globe nomination, for the 2024 film The Last Showgirl, starring Pamela Anderson, 58, and 67-year-old Jamie Lee Curtis.

Laughing, Cyrus said: “I did the same thing to Jamie Lee Curtis. That’s how I ended up doing The Last Showgirl and now being a part of Avatar.”

And the Flowers hitmaker only rocked up to the Oscars in March to get involved in movies.

Asked if offering original music is her “tried and true method” of landing gigs on the big screen, she said: “No, literally, that’s why I went to the Oscars this year. Everybody that came up and introduced themselves, I said, ‘Well, if you need any music, I’m around’.”

The star, who landed a cameo role in 2024’s Drive-Away Dolls, even offered music to the creators of the Netflix series, Baby Reindeer.

Cyrus said: “I don’t know what I would write for Baby Reindeer season two, but I threw that out there!”

Elsewhere in her interview with the publication, she shared her love for music and movies, being able to “become embedded”.

“I really feel myself attached to songs. There’s certain songs that even if they were written for the film or just a song used in the film, like I Will Always Love You, you immediately think of the movie itself, and they become embedded.”