Not only is Emily bright, bold and a little bit obvious personality-wise, but she’s also in a bright, bold and obvious world, whereas Rita is in a black-and-white world. [10] She has also written for Seventeen,[14] Teen Vogue,[15] and the Los Angeles Times. Surprise Emily in Paris Golden Globes nominee Lily Collins went all in with a big fashion moment at tonight's bicoastal award ceremony. Collins won the New Hollywood Film Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her role as Marla Mabrey in Rules Don't Apply (2016). Despite this, for her role as Marla Mabrey, Collins received her first Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical at the 74th Golden Globe Awards. Lily Collins as Rita Alexander and Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz on Mank (2020) From the story behind her recent engagement to her transformation into a prim British secretary for David Fincher’s latest black-and-white epic, the actor tells Radhika Seth about her extraordinary year. In Mank, the new film from David Fincher, Gary Oldman plays Herman Mankiewicz, a washed-up alcoholic screenwriter who ends up working on … She has little jewellery, she wears small heels but also brogues, and she’s slightly more sporty sometimes. Then, years later, at the Heavenly Bodies Met gala [in 2018], I was at the valet and saw Gary and his wife Gisele [Schmidt]. The score, by Nine Inch Nails ‘ Trent Reznor and his … [52] Also that year, Collins co-starred as Edith Tolkien, the girlfriend, muse, and wife of author J. R. R. Tolkien, in the biopic Tolkien, with Nicholas Hoult in the title role. He spends his bedridden days scribbling and reciting pages to hired typist Rita Alexander (Lily Collins) while both struggling through his vices and against a hard deadline. "[27] She made her singing debut in the film, performing an English re-written cover of "I Believe (in Love)". [51], In 2019, Collins co-starred with Zac Efron in the dark drama Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, directed by Joe Berlinger. 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