Hey, idiot OP...
She's not playing Eliza Doolittle....Carey Mulligan is. She may or may not create a role for herself, or take one already written in the story line. However, she is most certainly not playing Eliza.
As for her comments...I agree with what she said about Audrey Hepburn. Jesus Christ...an actor can't comment on another actor's lack of talent? Yes, she's dead. Would it be better for her to say it while she was alive? You think that that would make Hepburn feel better...to have someone to her face say she had very little acting ability? She was ok in Roman Holiday, and lucked out in winning the Oscar. And anyway, Emma was referring to her single performance in My Fair Lady, which I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree was an appalling part, an appalling characterization, an appalling interpretation by Hepburn. Hepburn was lovely to look at, charming, extremely generous...and Emma took none of those qualities from her. She merely commented on Hepburn's acting in "Lady", as well as the whole film itself. She was saying that there is a much darker, more serious story to be told in the way of what Eliza's father did to make money (e.g., sell his daughter to various suitors for money). I think her film is going to take a much darker, FAR, FAR less saccharine tone...unless the powers that be want to sweeten up to crap again. I know that her second McPhee story was supposed to be much darker as well, and even had a different title (which plays in Europe....Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang). But of course, Hollywood probably thought that people would either interpret it as a) "the Big Bang Theory"...so, they'll lose the idiot Christian/Creationism/Never Believe in Science audience members or b) might sound too violent..as in "bang...guns" (it was supposed to refer in general to the time period in which it was set (WWII), and the wars many bombs. I'm looking forward to her interpretation of "My Fair Lady", and hope beyond hope that the nutjob Hollywood suits don't muck it up.
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