Selena Gomez has opened up about struggling to land acting roles despite her stellar career.

The Rare Beauty founder shared that she no longer reveals her name when applying for film and television roles because she is typecast.

During a recent chat with The Hollywood Reporter, Selena admitted that at one point she was “almost done” with music and wanted to focus on acting because it was “the field that I originally wanted to be in.”

She told another media outlet, “Music will always be in my soul, but I never really got to spend enough time in the field that I originally wanted to be in. And I’ve been very strategic and made an effort to choose projects that will be compelling and not necessarily what people would imagine I would do.”

The “biggest challenge” she has faced in her acting career was being rejected for being “too young” and for being well-known.

“I sometimes send in a tape when they don’t know it’s me, or if it’s in person, my managers just say, ‘oh, we’ve got a client who’s going to read,’ and most of the time, they’ll say, ‘OK “, the Disney alum noted.

On the work front, Selena is enjoying the success of her new movie, Emilia Perez.

She was also seen at ELLE’s Women in Hollywood event in Los Angeles earlier this week.