I struggled to become an actress, says Lily Collins
LILY Collins has spoken about how much she has struggled to be taken seriously as an actress on her own merits, and not just be seen as the child of a famous father.
The daughter of singer Phil Collins said she felt incredibly frustrated as a teenager because people were dismissive of her ambitions.
The Mirror Mirror star will next be seen in Amazon drama The Last Tycoon, based on the last unfinished novel by F Scott Fitzgerald, which features Collins as Celia, the daughter of a Hollywood studio boss who is desperate to forge her own path.
She said: “To play a young woman who is coming out from her dad’s shadow and really at the forefront of this somewhat feminist movement within the film industry was a really cool interesting experience for me because as a teenager I really, really wanted to create my own talk show.
“I wanted to produce, I wanted to write, I wanted to do all the things Celia did, and I would go into rooms and pitch ideas at 16, and so I could relate to Celia and that frustration of people not taking you seriously or thinking you’re too young.”
Ms Collins, 28, added of the film: “It didn’t resonate with me really until after I shot the pilot.
“It wasn’t something that I saw right away.”
The Last Tycoon is available on Amazon Prime Video now.