The Great Gatsby is fast becoming the film equivalent of Daft Punk'sRandom Access Memories, and short of announcing an international premiere in rural NSW, Baz Luhrmann's interview with the The Hollywood Reporter further confirms why Gatsby is one of 2013's most anticipated pop-culture events. Luhrmann's passion and enthusiasm has always been infectious (who wasn't totally psyched for Australia, right?), but his candid discussion about the friendship and workplace chemistry with his Romeo + Juliet star Leonardo DiCaprio, and the revelatoryCarey Mulligan IS Daisy Buchanan moment have us feeling all warm and fuzzy inside. Thanks Baz.
CAREY Mulligan sealed her role as the enigmatic Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby with a kiss.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter,Gatsby director Baz Luhrmann shared that the Drive actress stunned Leonardo DiCaprio with an unexpected smooch while they acted out a scene.
Luhrmann said, "So she does the scene, grabs him and kisses him" much to DiCaprio’s surprise.
After the scene, Luhrmann revealed that "she went out the door and I was just thinking, 'My God, that is Daisy Buchanan. I wonder what (DiCaprio) thinks'."
"He said, 'The way Carey manifests Daisy is like something Gatsby would never have met in his lifetime, something so delicate that he would want to protect her to an obsessive and impossible level."
"And it was done,” Luhrmann concluded about his leading lady.
The 27-year-old British ingénue reportedly beat out Blake Lively, Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams to win the role.
Also in the interview, Luhrmann heaped praise on Dicaprio, who he also directed in 1996’s Romeo & Juliet.
"I have known Leonardo since he was 19, he is a friend. When I met him he was a gifted boy," he said. "He is now a man, and he is a man completely in control of his powers. And he only has two things he takes incredibly seriously: the environment and acting."
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