Why in this software the role chose her — the daughter of a musician and Housewives of a provincial English town of Esher? "In Cinderella, she auditioned for the role of one of Vreden-sisters, — says the Director of tales of Kenneth Branagh. Lily played the scene, everything went according to plan, when suddenly in response to some remark of partner she burst out laughing straight into the camera and bit na was confused. I thought, and perhaps that is so, contagious and cheeky, laugh herself Cinderella."
Emotional, bright, bold, famously riding on horseback, dancing the Polonaise, and generally more like far from the prejudices of an American, than Prim and proper Englishwoman, Lily resembles a young Kate Winslet — and fascinates at first sight. If you want to play a romantic Natasha or good Cinderella, a graduate of the London school of drama Guildhall instantly hiding the mischievous gleam in his eyes. And still the heroine of the XXI century — the girl didn't need saving. She really wants to meet Prince, but if NS happens, it will not disappear.
Tonight at Lily again ball. "I will have fifteen minutes to turn from the tortured filming of the actress in the Princess", — she jokes, And then says that this time her enough: gather hair at the crown, I'll paint my lips red lipstick and will wear Erdem cocktail dress that made her boyfriend, a young London-based designer Erdem Moralioglu. "Gown crazy: a semi-transparent black silk with white embroidery, high collar and lots of ruffles. PR campaign of "Cinderella" is finished, and you can afford a little bit Gothic. And again to go with the hair color. By nature I'm a redhead, but all the Directors were asked to go blonde".
On the red carpet to accompany her boyfriend to the star of sci-Fi series "Doctor Who", tridtsatitrehletny the Joker and dandy Matt Smith, she's Dating more than a year. In an interview about him not a word. "I'm afraid to say too much, so better not say anything," smiles the actress. But the couple even does not occur to hide from the paparazzi: they are hugging at the premieres, in their spare time riding around London on bicycles, have lunch with friends in a cafe. Waiting had gone away for cigarettes boyfriend Lily can sit directly on the pavement arm in arm with their Cocker Spaniel. This spontaneity is, in each of its heroines.
The actress says that all lining up with their senior colleagues in the film Branes: cate Blanchett, who played the stepmother, and the fairy — Helena Bonham-Carter. "Here they are really funny and clever, able to breathe life into any scene and make everyone around them feel comfortable."
And yet they manage to combine cinema and theatre — something to aspire to myself and James. "It would be great to return to the stage where I began. After school, I played Desdemona and Nina in a postmodern version of "the Seagull". Then he began to act in films, and in theatre there's no time left. But in big-budget Hollywood projects is not particularly pohuliganit. And the soul requires experiment".
What kind of roles she wants? "I want to play modern girls. This is probably the fate of all English Actresses to star in a historical drama, but I've had enough! — she laughs. Only in "War and peace" the dresses were easy and free. And in "Cinderella" — a tight corset and a long heavy skirt on the ground I could eat only soup and just standing, to sit down in this dress it was unreal. To lift me in a dance, Richard Madden playing the Prince, I had to go to the gym. In "Downton Abbey" had to pull the Breasts in the fashion of the 1920-ies, and it is also a dubious pleasure. Although Helena Bonham-Carter throughout his youth spent in crinolines, and then received a role in "Fight club" and became a star".
The first step to modern times Lily has already done. In the spring we will see the film "Pride and prejudice and zombies" by best-selling American Seth Graham-Smith that mixes classic novels with film genres, such as horror. "The plot of textbook England Jane Austen attacked by the living dead, and we, muslin ladies, we have to take up arms. The ghouls are not big trouble, no doubt".
