Posted on 05/17/2026 9:48:00 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Lily Collins is set to play Audrey Hepburn in a film on the screen icon and the making of her 1961 classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s...
With Dickinson‘s Alena Smith aboard to adapt, the film is based on Sam Wasson’s bestselling book :Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Dawn of the Modern Woman."....With a cast of characters including Truman Capote, Edith Head, director Blake Edwards, and, of course, Hepburn herself...
One of the defining figures of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Hepburn won an Oscar for Roman Holiday and went on to star in additional classics like Sabrina and Funny Face before coming around to Breakfast at Tiffany’s...based on Truman Capote’s novella, which cemented her as a global fashion and cultural icon...
Her character, Holly Golightly, is a young New York socialite who becomes interested in a young man new to her apartment building, only for her past to threaten to come between the two. Nominated for five Oscars, with Hepburn competing for Best Actress, the film won two, in Score and Song, and entered the U.S. National Film Registry in 2012...
Currently, Collins can be seen starring in Netflix’s hit romantic dramedy Emily in Paris...
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I just finished showing Roman Holiday to my grandson and his girlfriend. A lovely movie.
Breakfast At Tiffany’s . . . meh.
Be5 there ain’t no Mr. Yunioshi.
Just watched Charade. Light everywhere in each shot - but only one very distinct shadow. Impressive.
You must be Gen X. Most of the older people won’t get the reference.
CC
Hollywood is incapable of making anything but reruns of previous movies...the suck pure and simple.
Ever since they redid the Titanic, they’re hoping success continues. But they haven’t been able to replicate that success even though they tried hundreds of times.
[Sure hope Lily is actually a female.
With he hollyweird degenerates, never know.......]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7VIj-36KDw
Regardless of who her daddy is, I’m going to need multiple Tom Collins drinks to get through the movie, I’m sure.
“I can’t believe they passed up the opportunity to cast Stacy Abrams”
I used to be Wedding Coordinator for a five-Star resort in HI. They came from all over the world for their destination weddings. They involved months of communicating with people long-distance.
One chick was adamant that she was going for the Audrey Hepburn look; she had to BE Audrey Hepburn. She even specified that I must order a “nosegay” for her to carry which, I guess, is a Hepburn thing. Nosegay!
I expected gorgeous and svelte. She showed up two days before the wedding, and she was the fattest blondest person ever. Daddy was rich, though, so she could afford trying to play out fantasies.
Well put. You capture the allure of Audrey Hepburn well in that one phrase.
Hollywood is lazy, unproductive and untalented.
Making a film about making a film...
Talk about navel gazing.
Bet that will sell well.
You forgot intellectually bankrupt.
I had no idea that Lily Collins existed before I watched Tolkien. She is very good in it, with a couple of scenes that are magical.
As I often do when I "discover" a new actor, I checked out her filmography, but I didn't see much that interested me. The only one I recall actually sitting through was To the Bone (2017), which is a standard rite of passage movie for young actresses. This one is about a young woman with severe anorexia who is starving herself to death.
A lot of actors and actresses will take such roles, partly as an artistic challenge (which I respect) and (often when young) to signal to the studio suits that they're ready to take on gritty, psychologically rough adult roles. The young women especially break into the business doing the vulnerable teen or young hottie type roles, and they start aging out of those in their mid-20's.
The better ones are serious about their craft, really want to act, and understand that classic drama goes to some pretty dark places. This isn't perverted moden Hollywood stuff; drama don't get no darker than Oedipus Rex or King Lear, MacBeth, Hamlet, Coriolanus, etc. Blame it on Shakespeare and them old dead Greeks.
I watched the first episode or two of Emily in Paris, thinking that Lily Collins just possibly might have an instinct and agent oriented to quality material. Nope. It's the worst kind of Netflix trash (so naturally it has a wide pop culture viewership). My sense is that Lily Collins is talented but her career has gotten hijacked by a high paying franchise that has dragged on for too many years that she could have spent doing better things. But I'm sure she's made bank. That's not the choice I would have hoped for, but it's understandable.
Why not cast that African chick who looks like she eats beetles outside of her mud hut in Ethiopia?
Thanks for posting this!
They need Lizzo to have any hope of an Oscar.
Bingo!
Or, Ellen Page..
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