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Lucy Boynton’s glossiest role yet: the queen of Vanity Fair

GORGEOUS British actress Lucy Boynton has the world at her feet after her performances in the smash hit film Bohemian Rhapsody and the TV revival of The Ipcress File.

And I can reveal that she is now being sought to play British magazine legend Tina Brown in a high-profile TV adaptation of her 2017 book The Vanity Fair Diaries. The book centres on the media culture of New York in the 1980s and Brown’s eight years as editor in chief of Vanity Fair

Having arrived as a 20-something Brit abroad, Brown survived backstabbing rivalries and bitchy fall-outs, as well as dramas including the famous cover of the magazine featuring Demi Moore naked and pregnant.

Brown, 68, has personally requested that Boynton be hired to play her, and there is an intriguing family connection, too. Boynton’s father, Graham, wrote for Vanity Fair and was editor of Conde Nast Traveller, having been recruited by Brown’s late husband Harold Evans.

A source says: ‘Lucy grew up in the Conde Nast family, so it seems like a wonderful coincidence that she is going to take on this role. Lucy is keen to do it, and the details are just being ironed out.’

The Vanity Fair Diaries were optioned in 2017 by Bruna Papandrea, the executive who produced the big budget TV adaptation of Big Little Lies.

She commented: ‘Tina’s singular voice immediately swept me up into the intoxicating, pulsepounding energy of New York media culture in the Eighties — the glittering social landscape, the thrill of creative rebirth and the relentless quest for success.’ She went on: ‘Her diaries form a riveting, at times prophetic portrait of the opulent decade that shaped our modern media, told through the eyes of a woman who entered this world as an outsider but nevertheless smashed through professional barriers left and right.

‘I am overjoyed to be working with Tina and can’t wait to translate her legacy to the screen.’

M EANWHILE, Boynton, 28, is getting ready to film Faithfull, about singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull, and has met with the artist in preparation for the picture, which will be a riposte to the characterisations of her as merely Mick Jagger’s girlfriend.

‘So often the woman loses her identity and becomes an accessory to the man,’ she told an interviewer. For this reason, and because she wants audiences to believe in characters she plays, she keeps her personal life quiet, but she is actually dating her Bohemian Rhapsody co-star Rami Malek.

Boynton has recently finished work on a gothic horror film, The Pale Blue Eye, for Netflix, in which she stars alongside Christian Bale and Harry Melling.

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