Cara really CAN act...Hollywood bible hails her as new film’s saviour
HER first role in a major Hollywood movie was panned by critics, but Cara Delevingne has confounded doubters by attracting rave reviews for her starring role in a £200million sci-fi blockbuster.
One leading critic even says the British model-turned-actress has single-handedly saved the new movie, Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets.
Directed by Luc Besson, maker of The Fifth Element, the movie received a mixed reception after its first screenings.
But in the Hollywood trade bible Variety, chief film critic Peter Debruge is effusive in his praise for Ms Delevingne as Laureline, a crime-fighter in the distant future who battles to protect the city of Alpha. Debruge says she is a ‘revelation’, adding that the 24-year-old is ‘sassy, sarcastic and spontaneous’.
He concludes: ‘She doesn’t just save Alpha – she saves the movie as well.’
It’s a far cry from the poor notices Ms Delevingne got for last year’s superhero saga Suicide Squad, when she tried to shrug off the ‘horrific’ reviews by saying: ‘It doesn’t really matter what the critics say at the end of the day.’
The sentiment is one that might now be shared by Ms Delevingne’s co-star in the new film, pop star Rihanna. Variety savages her for her ‘awkward line readings’. The film is released here next month.
Ms Delevingne’s previous movies include The Face Of An Angel and Paper Towns, for which the actress was dubbed ‘the find of the film’. But not all the reviews of her latest release will make such happy reading.
In the Hollywood Reporter, Todd McCarthy writes: ‘Cara Delevingne needs to learn there is more to acting than smirking and eye-rolling.’