May 25,2017
The Crown’s Claire Foy is Ready to Become a Full-Blown Movie Star
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It’s a fabulous time to be Claire Foy. Last year, the actress starred in the critically acclaimed, biographical Netflix series The Crown as Queen Elizabeth II in her youth. The actress has since prepped for the show’s second season, after which she’ll bow out of the show altogether. (That’s because Season 3 jumps ahead in time, meaning its youthful core cast will have to wave goodbye.) But Foy, who won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of the young royal, has a bounty of prospects ahead of her—and seems poised to exchange her TV success for some good old-fashioned Hollywood stardom.
The actress is reportedly in talks to play Lisbeth Salander in the upcoming The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the latest installment-slash-soft reboot of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, according to Variety. As a refresher: Lisbeth is a hardcore goth computer hacker with various piercings and tattoos and an asymmetrical haircut. Foy, meanwhile, was determined posh and English rose-y enough to play the most famous monarch of our time.
Naturally, Foy doesn’t exactly scream Lisbeth’s aesthetic—but neither, really, did Rooney Mara back when she was cast in the Americanized version of Dragon Tattoo. At the time, the actress was best-known for whittling Jesse Eisenberg down to size in The Social Network. In the Swedish versions of the films, Noomi Rapace played the anti-everyone, all-black-everything hacker. If Foy takes on the role, she had better prepare to bleach those eyebrows, buzz off some of that hair, and start picking out some waterproof black eyeliner.
But wait, there’s more! Variety also reports that Foy might not take the role . . . because she recently had a meeting with Academy Award-winning director Damien Chazelle to co-star in his Neil Armstrong biopic First Man. Ryan Gosling is set to play the iconic astronaut in Chazelle’s big-screen follow-up to musical hit La La Land. Foy, however, has not received an official offer for the role, leaving room for her to take on The Girl in the Spider’s Web after all. Fede Alvarez, who directed surprise horror hit Don’t Breathe last year, is set to helm the upcoming Salander project.
