at the 2014 cannes film festival, it was announced that duffy would return to acting with a starring role in a film project called "secret love" which was never released. in the 2015 crime thriller film "legend", duffy plays american singer timi yuro and contributes three songs to its soundtrack including a new original song; "whole lot of love". this song, alongside new song "dear heart", was released as a digital download and streaming single on 11 september 2015.