Being one-fourth of the international K-pop supergroup BLACKPINK is already more than one job. But in the trailer for the upcoming documentary Always Lalisa, group member LISA confronts the challenge of stepping away from the girl group she’s called home for the past decade to fully dive into a solo era that included performing at the opening ceremony for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, making her solo Coachella debut, serving on the 2026 Met Gala host committee and making her acting debut on the hit HBO series The White Lotus.

Related

LISA Says BLACKPINK Has to ‘Hide When We’re Dating’ & Recalls Having Secret Relationships

BLACKPINK’S Lisa Is 100% ‘That B–ch On Your TV’ In Fierce, High-Fashion Video For Return To Rap Solo Single ‘SaWaDiKa’: Watch

Travis Garland Delivers 'Breathtaking' Cover Of Ariana Grande's 'Dangerous Woman' For 'AGT' Quarterfinals: Watch

“I’m like, ‘you don’t have to do it this crazy,'” an unseen off-screen voice recalls telling the singer about her beyond packed 2025-2026 solo schedule. “She’s like, ‘no, I can do it.'”

The minute-long trailer for the doc that dropped on Wednesday morning (Sept. 9) opens with a montage of footage of the 29-year-old singer as a preteen and teen K-pop trainee, interspersed with film of her taking the stage for solo shows as her fans chant, “LISA! LISA!” While getting glammed up for a performance, she asks her team, “Do I look like a rock star?” They all agree she does.

In voice-over, LISA documents her decade with BLACKPINK, calling her bandmates — JENNIE, ROSE and JISOO — her “soul mates” amid footage of them hugging and goofing around backstage. As close as they’ve become, however, LISA says they all agreed in 2025 to take a year off to focus on their own projects.

Director Sue Kim’s (The Last of the Sea Women) doc follows LISA on that one year, in which the singer/rapper packed in an insane amount of personal and K-pop firsts while dealing with the intense pressure of going it alone as she pushed into acting, building her own brand and trying to balance having a personal life outside of the camera’s glare. Among her accomplishments were performing “Goals” alongside Anitta and Rema at the 2026 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony, making her the first K-pop and first Thai artist to do so, as well as performing a solo set at Coachella last year and being featured on the cover of Vanity Fair‘s summer 2026 issue.

She also became the first K-pop artist to serve on a Met Gala host committee this year, in addition to presenting at this year’s Golden Globe Awards and making her well-received acting debut in the hit HBO series The White Lotus. LISA also made history as the first K-pop artist to launch a Las Vegas residency with her upcoming four-show VIVA LA LISA run at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace (Nov. 13-14, 27-28).

“It’s really short,” she says of the one-year off from BLACKPINK plan in the trailer, “what should I do first?” The scene then shifts to Thailand, where she filmed season three of White Lotus, with director/show runner Mike White recalling how he fangirled out over the pop star when she arrived on set. “She comes in the room and I’m like, [singsongy voice], ‘Hi LISA!'”

“We really had no days off,” LISA laments of the pressure to do everything as we see her changing in and out of elaborate stage costumes, exhausted after a long rehearsal and shooting music videos on a busy city street at night. “I just want to see what else I’m capable of,” she says. “I’m finding myself as well … a new me.”

Tickets are on sale now for the film that will arrive at IMAX and cinemas around the world for a limited theatrical release beginning on Oct. 12; click here to purchase tickets and get more information on locations and showings. The movie will stream exclusively on YouTube Premium later this year.

Watch the trailer for Always Lalisa below.