Lily Collins Dishes on Engagement to Charlie McDowell, Plus: Her New Movie ‘Mank’

“Further’s” Cheslie Kryst spoke with Lily about a few of them, together with her engagement, her success of “Emily in Paris,” and her new film “Mank.”

Lily and director Charlie McDowell, son of Mary Steenburgen and Malcolm McDowell, received engaged in October after greater than a yr of courting. She famous, “I do not know the way used to it you get.”

“I by no means would ever put on a hoop on that finger,” Lily shared. “It wasn’t like I used to be superstitious, I used to be identical to, ‘I am saving that finger.’ Even in picture shoots, I might be like, ‘No, no, no…’ I used to be all the time saving it, so now it’s like, ‘Oh, proper, like, it has its place, it’s lastly discovered the correct ring to placed on.’”

She went on, “I feel we’re simply, you understand, completely soaking in being engaged and nonetheless celebrating with people who we will, in a approach that’s protected… Eight months of being collectively in quarantine has undoubtedly felt like essentially the most unbelievable approach of attending to know somebody.”

Through the COVID-19 lockdown, everybody has been attending to know her Netflix present “Emily in Paris,” which has simply been renewed for Season 2. She dished, “We’re so excited to return and we’re simply determining all of that proper now… Hopefully, quickly.”

As for films, there’s already main Oscar buzz for her new David Fincher-directed drama “Mank,” which follows the lifetime of screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, performed by Gary Oldman, as he races to complete the 1941 film masterpiece “Citizen Kane.”

Lily performs Rita Alexander, Mank’s secretary. She mentioned, “For me to be part of one thing that David Fincher is directing and creating, he is a genius… After which to see it and go, ‘Wow, I received to behave reverse Gary Oldman,’ like, it is a complete dream come true… I imply, the whole lot about this film is so nuanced, and I am simply so pleased to be part of it.”