Is Carey Mulligan Playing Daisy In Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby?
It seems like just yesterday that a whole bevy of talented, comely young ladies were on the shortlist to play Daisy opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby movie. And now it appears that the mercurial Australian director has narrowed his sights to Carey Mulligan. But could it be that she's not his first choice?
/Film is reporting that Carey Mulligan has catapulted the top of Luhrmann's list, leapfrogging over other boldfaced names like Keira Knightley, Amanda Seyfried, Blake Lively, Abbie Cornish, Michelle Williams, and Natalie Portman.
But the Academy Award-nominated actress was evidently the second choice for Baz. Reportedly, he wanted Scarlett Johansson to play the etherially beautiful but empty-headed Daisy, but Johansson was unable to extricate herself from her prior commitments to Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo. So, Mulligan moves up to front-runner status and Johansson gets to smell like a wet llama for a couple months for Cameron Crowe.
My colleague Christopher Rosen wanted Michelle Williams to get the part, and while she's an excellent actress, Daisy is supposed to be such a stunning beauty that she makes a previously meek outsider completely change his life and personality for her. And though it slightly bugs me that such quintessentially American roles are going to foreign actors -- Stringer Bell, Sookie Stackhouse, Spider-Man -- I think Mulligan might be great as Daisy. What do you think?
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I think Amanda Seyfried would have been perfect for the role. Carey Mulligan is more of the cute girl than the stunning beauty. After Amanda I would have liked to Abbie Cornish. Abbie can be as beautiful or as plain as the role demands but she has an innocent sensuality that would have brought a layer of interest to the role.
I too am crazy about Michelle Williams, but I think, like you said, a *stunningly* beautiful actrress has to play Daisy. That would be Scarlett Johanson, Natalie Portman or Amanda Seyfried. I don't think she needs to be an Oscar winning thespian, though. The part is an easy one. All she has to do is act like beautiful, refined but spoiled, self-centered little girl in a woman's body.
I'd just like to say that Andrew Garfield, who is playing Spiderman, was actually born in LA and his father is American. Therefore not entirely "foreign." 🙂
I think Carey would be absolutely brilliant in this role. I adore her almost as much as I adore Gatsby. xx
I think if you are talking about "stunning" mt picks are: Portman and Seyfried. Aside from their physical beauty, they are charming, great, and compelling actresses.
None of the named actresses is "stunning" or appropriate as "Daisy." They should have made this film while Charlize Theron was still young enough to do it. They should go for an amazing unknown...keep looking!