What Song Is In The Enola Holmes Trailer

The Enola Holmes trailer features the guitar riff from Hole’s popular single, “Celebrity Skin”. A movie adaptation of the young adult detective novels by Nancy Springer, Enola Holmes stars Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things) as Enola, the younger sister of world-renowned super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill) and his equally-brilliant brother Mycroft (Sam Claflin).

Written by Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials) and directed by Harry Bradbeer (Fleabag), the movie follows Enola as she sets out to find her missing mother, Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter), after she mysteriously vanishes one day. The film was produced by Legendary and Warner Bros. with the intention of hitting theaters, but those plans changed after the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic took a turn for the worse in March. It has since been acquired by Netflix, which plans to stream Enola Holmes beginning near the end of September.

In between Enola breaking the fourth wall to speak directly to viewers and getting into all sorts of trouble (much to Mycroft’s disapproval), the Enola Holmes trailer includes the famous guitar riff from the song “Celebrity Skin”. Released by the alternative rock band Hole in 1998, it’s the group’s most successful single of all time, as well as the title of their third studio album. It’s since been featured in a handful of major films, including last year’s Captain Marvel solo movie (where it played over the end credits).

By her own admittance, Courtney Love’s lyrics for “Celebrity Skin” were a rejection of the idea that her celebrity in the late ’90s (which led to Hole taking a hiatus due to her movie career at the time) meant she was selling out or softening the value of her art. There’s a clear connection between that message and the Enola Holmes trailer footage, which shows Enola butting heads with Mycroft when he attempts to make her more “acceptable for society.” Instead, she runs away and refashions herself as a prim and proper lady on her own terms, much to the approval of her combat instructor (Susie Wokoma). Like Love and her celebrity, Enola chooses to treat her femininity as an asset, not a hindrance, and something that she and alone will decide how best to use.

No doubt, Netflix hopes Enola Holmes will become another hit for the service. The streamer has previously enjoyed a good deal of success when it comes to high school rom-coms like The Kissing Booth and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, and is presumably angling to launch a similar YA franchise around Brown’s crime-solving sleuth. They came across an unexpected snag when Sherlock creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate sued them in June, claiming they don’t have the rights to use an empathetic version of Sherlock, like the one played by Cavill. But much like Mycroft and his efforts to make her over into a “respectable” young lady, it will apparently take more than that to stop Enola Holmes.