Ed Sheeran is better known as a singer than an actor, but he may one day change that.

The Grammy winner has finished filming his biggest acting role to date, the Himesh Patel stars as a fictional singer-songwriter who wakes up and discovers that no one else re the Beatles; Sheeran gets involved in the story as he, playing himself, discovers the up-and-comer and brings him on tour.

The film is "very clever," Sheeran told the AP, and he said it gave him the chance to "actually kind of learn how to act." He noted that his roles in HBO's "Game of Thrones" Season 7 and the short-lived FX historical drama series "The Bastard Executioner" were small parts, so he was really just "popping in for a day" each time.

The singer actually Maisie Williams, who is a big fan of his.

His new film, though, threw him right into the deep end, it sounds like. Sheeran said he was working "like full 12-hour days" -- all in the midst of his tour. It made for "a very intense two months" as he split his weeks into four days doing music-related work and three days shooting the film.

We'll see if his hard work pays off when the film comes out in September 2019.

[via: The AP; h/t: EW]