An Audrey Hepburn biopic with Rooney Mara? Yes, let’s sign!

If you don’t like black and white movies and you don’t care about 50s-60s cinema, you still know Audrey Hepburn for her perfect buns, eyeliners and pearls.

A cinema AND fashion icon who continues to inspire young actresses and fashionistas, Audrey Hepburn is an eternal figure, who died in 1993 in Switzerland.

Because it was time to pay tribute to this great actress who obviously showed up Diamonds on the sofa but also inside Funny Faces, Roman Holidays, The Wind from the Plains, At the Risk of Getting Lost, War and Peace and many others, Audrey Hepburn will star in Luca Guadagnino’s next film.

As for the outstanding Rooney Mara, it is she who will lend her features to the heroine of the seventh art.

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Rooney Mara, an ideal actress for the role of Audrey Hepburn

In addition to the delicacy of the features that recall those of the one she has to embody, Rooney Mara is an exceptional actress who, despite her discretion, has had a good career in Hollywood.

Twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, first for Millenniumtherefore for the infinitely sensitive carolhe always makes very specific choices – we remember fondly A ghost storyprobably the best ghost movie we’ve ever seen (yes, better than The house of the devil) — without having the right to an international reputation comparable to that of his partner Joaquin Phoenix.

Playing the iconic Audrey Hepburn could help her change the rules of the game and, why not, finally win the big prizes to which she has gravitated since 2011.

Luca Guadagnino, director of the Audrey Hepburn biopic

And who better than Luca Guadagnino to help him do it? The director, very long-winded in films since 1999, saw his popularity explode only belatedly, with A bigger slap And Call me by your name.

Particularly drawn to bittersweet comedy-dramas, he is also an expert in the big differences, as he demonstrated in 2018 by directing a bold and delightful remake of Suspiriafirst formed by Dario Argento in 1977.

Under the aegis of the Italian director, Rooney Mara is supposed to make Audrey Hepburn larger than life. A heavy responsibility, especially since surprisingly it will be the first biopic on the 60s movie star, even if a TV movie entitled Audrey Hepburn, a life, released in 2000, which retraced the fundamental stages of the actress’s career.

This biopic will be co-produced by Rooney Mara herself, who will sign her third job here as a producer, and will be released on Apple TV+.