Keira Knightley: As Fair A Lady As Audrey Hepburn?
Rumor has it that Keira Knightley is in discussions with Columbia Pictures to revive the role of Eliza Doolittle in the classic musical My Fair Lady.
In 1964, Audrey Hepburn first brought the role of the Cockney flower seller transformed into a high-class lady by Professor Henry Higgins to the screen.
Now, Keira Knightley is no Audrey Hepburn, but I could see her pulling this off. I am sure she can’t sing, but neither could Hepburn - her voice was dubbed for nearly every one of her songs!!
And I? Am so glad to see Hollywood giving us some more musicals these days. Yeah, I’m a real girl that way!!
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POSTED BY: gossipmonkey
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I wonder who will take Rex Harrison’s part… I watched the film a short while back and it struck me how it resonated for its time but not for today. I think they’ll have to tweak the end a bit. It was positively chilling. I don’t think audiences would accept as ‘romantic’ a woman going back to a bitter abusive and highly narcissistic man who even pissed off his mother with his self-centered behavior and misogynistic attitudes towards women particularly his ‘creation’ Eliza who he treated like a puppet.
In the film she is just about to take flight with a man who loves her when she goes back and he barely acknowledges her presence. My father was a highly narcissistic man. I know this dynamic painfully from the inside. It wasn’t going to get better and it wouldn’t be ‘happily ever after’. Actually, if they were going to stick to type, that bitter English actor you posted about recently (slagging off Americans) would be a fine choice.