Lily at Tiffany’s.
Lily Collins is set to play Audrey Hepburn in an upcoming movie about the making of 1961’s classic film Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and she couldn’t be more excited about the role.
“It’s with almost 10 years of development,” she wrote alongside the announcement on Instagram Feb. 23, “and a lifetime of admiration and adoration for Audrey that I’m finally able share this. Honored and ecstatic don’t begin to express how I feel…”
The forthcoming film will be adapted by Dickinson‘s Alena Smith, with the basis of the story coming from Sam Wasson‘s 2010 book Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Dawn of the Modern Woman, which was released in 2010.
Though the Emily in Paris will soon don Audrey’s iconic baby bangs on the big screen, she’s previously shared glimpses into how the Roman Holiday actress has inspired her.
And ahead of Lily’s casting, her father-in-law Malcolm McDowell—Lily is married to his and Mary Steenburgen’s son Charlie McDowell—detailed the shared qualities between her and the classic Hollywood legend.