Audrey Hepburn’s Son Had “Several Talks” With Lily Collins About Upcoming Biopic, Shares Thoughts On Thomasin McKenzie Project
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- Sean Hepburn Ferrer told People he's had "several talks" with Lily Collins about her upcoming Audrey Hepburn portrayal, suggesting things that "made her giggle and laugh"
- Lily Collins signed on in February to portray Hepburn in an adaptation of Sam Wasson's bestselling book "Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's and the Dawn of the Modern Woman"
- Sean Hepburn Ferrer compared Collins favorably to Natalie Portman (whom he's known since she was 14) and Rooney Mara—once attached to a Luca Guadagnino-helmed biopic—declaring "Lily is something special"
- Sean said Thomasin McKenzie's "Dinner with Audrey," which premiered at Cannes in May, "sounds sweet" and that McKenzie "seems like a very serious young actress," though he "don't know much about the project"
- "Dinner with Audrey" focuses on Hepburn's longtime friendship with designer Count Hubert de Givenchy, played by Ansel Elgort
- Luca Dotti, Hepburn's younger son, called himself "a curious bystander" and noted Collins has "forever been named as a possible successor of my mother" because of her looks, talents, "Emily in Paris," and fashion
Why it matters: Sean Hepburn Ferrer and Luca Dotti are the two people whose endorsement carries the most cultural weight on any Hepburn portrayal—and Sean explicitly distinguishing Collins from the Portman and Mara iterations signals which biopic has family goodwill as it heads into production.
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