Cara Delevingne Says 'London Fields' Seemed 'Kind Of Major'
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- Cara Delevingne told Louis Theroux on his podcast that her 2018 thriller 'London Fields' had 'seemed like it was going to be kind of major' given its cast and the source Martin Amis novel.
- "London Fields" earned a 0% Rotten Tomatoes rating and grossed only $160,000 over its debut U.S. weekend across 613 cinemas despite being made for $8 million.
- "London Fields" was pulled from the 2015 Toronto Film Festival lineup after its director sued its producers, with the resulting protracted litigation delaying the release for years.
- Delevingne comes off the buzzy A24 acquisition 'Club Kid,' which screened at Cannes, making the 'London Fields' revisit land in a markedly different career moment.
- Harvey Weinstein called Delevingne and warned her 'you'll never make it in the industry if people think you're gay,' per her on-the-record retelling to Theroux.
Why it matters: A $8M literary adaptation with a stacked ensemble collapsed commercially and critically, grossing roughly 2% of its budget on opening weekend across 613 U.S. cinemas—a cautionary datapoint on prestige-on-paper projects gone sideways. The Weinstein quote adds another on-record contemporaneous account of studio gatekeepers explicitly conditioning a young actress's career on her closeting.
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