After weeks of meetings and readings and the like, director Baz Luhrmann has found his Daisy Buchanan: ‘it’ girl Carey Mulligan (Never Let Me Go, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, An Education). A few weeks back it was going to be The Town‘s Rebecca Hall. Then it turned out every talented star actress under 35 was being considered/considering Luhrmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American classic The Great Gatsby. [Deadline]
Mulligan, at first look, seems to be the obvious choice in terms of current street cred and on-screen display of talent. But consider the Daisy character, and how monumentally different she is to every single character Mulligan has portrayed on-screen thus far. Mulligan’s emotional – her alter-egos shed tears. Daisy Buchanan’s tears, real of not, feel fake. She’s a construction built on the material.
That said, internalization is the key thing here, and Mulligan displayed more than enough of that in Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go this fall. She should match up to Leo DiCaprio’s Gatsby without much of a problem.
Are you more or less excited for Luhrmann’s Gatsby with Mulligan now attached?