You would possibly wish to sit down for this one.

Juliette Lewis performs a chair — yep, a literal chair— within the upcoming movie By Design from filmmaker Amanda Kramer, and Leisure Weekly has your unique have a look at the wacky first trailer.

Described as "an absurdist spin on the body-swap comedy," the film (in theaters Feb. 13, 2026) follows Lewis's Camille, who, after seeing an exquisite chair at a showroom, "realizes that she really envies the lifetime of this excellent piece of furnishings," per the movie's official synopsis.

"I want I might simply be you," Camille whispers, clinging to the seat.

A voice-over provides the trailer a meta twist, asking cheekily, "Have you ever heard of this film the place Juliette Lewis performs a chair? Her character swaps our bodies with a chair…however a chair doesn't have a physique."

And but, she and the article nonetheless handle to "swap varieties," leaving Camille unable to maneuver or converse. But it surely seems her family and friends desire her a lot better this fashion: Her mother (Betty Buckley) thinks she's a greater listener, and her besties (Samantha Mathis and Robin Tunney) assume she's simpler to get together with.

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She even has higher luck within the courting world, touchdown Oliver (Mamoudou Athie), a "minimalist bachelor who progressively turns into romantically fixated on his elegant new possession." Within the trailer, he and Camille share a heat embrace, and later he's proven licking the chair's wood-grain seat (marking the second trailer in as many months that includes a personality tonguing an inanimate object).

Narrated by Melanie Griffith, By Design guarantees to have fun "the messiness of feminine interiority with deadpan humor, surrealist thrives, and interpretative dance numbers."

Contemplate us seated.