Lily was on The Late Late Show with James Corden last week (May 14) to promote Tolkien, but also to talk about the The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes On Fashion! Our gallery has been updated with photos of Lily at the talk show, and you can watch a clip (if you haven’t yet) below!
While in London the past week, Lily visited There’s Something About Movies. The episode aired last night on Sky One, during which Lily revealed that she used to have Leonardo DiCaprio posters in her bedroom, plus took part in a Snow White sketch. You can watch two clips from the interview below.
Los Angeles Times released yesterday an article in which Lily Collins and her Tolkien co-star Nicholas Hoult speak about the movie, preparing for the role and J.R.R. Tolkien. You can read the full article below, plus check out some beautiful outtakes of the duo taken for the article in our gallery!
The early years of J.R.R. Tolkien’s life play out very much like fiction in Dome Karukoski’s biopic of the famed author. So much so that Karukoski doesn’t really consider “Tolkien,” in theaters Friday, to be a biopic at all.
The film, which stars Nicholas Hoult as the “Lord of the Rings” author and Lily Collins as his wife, Edith Bratt, recounts Tolkien’s young life, from the loss of his parents to his school years to fighting in World War I. Much of that personal saga is unknown, even to super fans of Tolkien, a category in which Karukoski puts himself.
“I didn’t know anything about his younger life,” the director said during a recent press day in London. “When I started digging it was surprising. It was this fable of emotions he had experienced that are so readable in his own books. … It’s a story about youth and love and friendship and exploring his mind. It’s quite stunning that this story hasn’t been told.”
Hoult, who also grew up reading the author’s works, looked for fine details and nuance in his research, pulling from books and video interviews Tolkien did later in life. His goal wasn’t to do an impression of Tolkien, but to try to get inside his head and capture his essence.
“Nowadays, even if you don’t know someone’s work you seem to know them, just through how much news is covered and through Twitter,” the actor reflected. “You seem to know a lot about a lot of people’s lives. And this is someone who I was a fan of and when I read the script I was like, ‘Wow, I didn’t know any of that.’ It was … lovely to get to go back through his work and learn about what inspired him and the relationships that meant something to him.”
The actor prepared while shooting “X-Men: Dark Phoenix” and spent time between takes — in full costume and makeup as Beast — painting watercolors in Tolkien’s style.
He added, “You do all this research and then hopefully in the back of your mind, when you’re on set, it’s subconsciously there. Detail is where it all comes from.”
Collins had less to work with because Edith and her life aren’t well documented. A few photographs, including some of the couple together, do exist — the actress sensed a cheekiness to Edith, which she brought to the performance — and Collins was able to research what it would have been like for women during that period in general.
Lily attended last night the LA Special Screening Of Fox Searchlight Pictures’ Tolkien, followed by a Q&A. Our gallery has been updated with photos from the premiere!
Lily Collins and her Extremely Wicked, Shockingly and Vile co-star Zac Efron hung out at Glamour studios and took a very fun friendship test. Watch what happened during it in the video below!
Tolkien stars Lily Collins and Nicholas Hoult take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the internet’s most searched questions about themselves. How do you get Lily Collins’ eyebrows? Is Nicholas Hoult related to Tom Cruise? Where was Lily Collins raised?
Last night Lily made an appearance at Montclair Film Festival for a special screening and Q&A of Tolkien, a movie on the early life of English professor J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as notable academic works, that is set to be released in theaters this Friday (May 10). Our gallery has been updated with photos from the event!
Hello Lilyians! Yesterday the Costume Institute Gala took place in New York City, this year the theme being “Camp: Notes on Fashion”. Lily was in attendance of the Gala, looking beautiful wearing a Giambattista Valli Haute Couture silk gown and Cartier. Our gallery has been updated with photos of Lily at the event, plus two outtakes taken by Ungano + Tommy Studio of her look before the event!
