Production, originally slated for this fall, has shifted to next year. “Having spent so many months reading about her life and her world, it was then very strange to be sharing the same space and time with her,” the actor said of the “totally surreal” experience. But the day-complete with a live performance by the 73-year-old-was quite the reward for Boynton’s research. The pandemic was still weeks away come April, Faithfull would have her own close call with the coronavirus. “It’s kind of like your favorite character from a book coming to life,” Boynton said, recalling meeting Faithfull at the Chloé runway show this past February. Boynton’s next project-as headliner and executive producer-is as her playlist foretells: a biopic of Faithfull, chronicling the singer-songwriter’s life in ’60s London, as she found fame, love, and turbulence alongside Mick Jagger. Sing Street, from 2016, steeped her in ’80s New Wave hits and an accompanying cloud of hairspray. There is Bohemian Rhapsody, the 2018 blockbuster about Queen that earned Rami Malek an Oscar as well as an offscreen partner in Boynton. To think of the actor in musical terms is understandable, given her back catalog. And, of course, plenty of Marianne Faithfull and the Stones.” “The last few months have been a lot of Leon Bridges, Bob Dylan, Beatles, Tom Petty, Cat Stevens, Alabama Shakes-all of that on repeat, pretty much. As long as I am in charge of the playlist, it’s going to be embarrassingly consistent,” Boynton said in a recent phone call. Meanwhile, playing over the speakers, you can expect a soundtrack squarely in the sweet spot. The actor’s reading tastes skew modern Gothic-she cites Shirley Jackson and Helen Oyeyemi as favorites-so a visitor might tuck into a tonally appropriate escape. Over in London, buffered from American politics by an ocean’s breadth, we would all do well to spend a day at home with Lucy Boynton.
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