(Head’s up if you haven’t watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s in a while or only know it from the famous clips and images: not all of it aged well, particularly the racist portrayal of an Asian man by Mickey Rooney. Hepburn is great though. Everyone should watch Sabrina.)
Wait, what happened to those other Audrey biopics?
If all of this sounds vaguely familiar, minus the Lily Collins part, that’s because there have been other Hepburn projects in the works over the years. In 2022, Apple was going to make a Hepburn biopic directed by Luca Guadagnino, starring Rooney Mara, but it never happened.
In November 2025, Ansel Elgort and Thomasin McKenzie signed on to star in a film about Hepburn’s friendship with designer Hubert de Givenchy, though that project is less of a biopic and more of a “one magical night” romp based on a real relationship. TBD on how that’s coming along, but interesting to note that Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios is plunging ahead on projects!
Then there were the rumors swirling in January 2025 that Ariana Grande was gunning for the part of Audrey in…something…when she suddenly started dressing very Hepburn-esque. In response to the rumors, Grande basically said she does take style inspo from Hepburn but denied that anything else was brewing.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Audrey Hepburn, 1961
We’ll have to wait and see how a Lily Collins Audrey Hepburn turns out!
Who was Audrey Hepburn?
Okay, we know you know who Audrey Hepburn was as a movie star, but did you know she wanted to be a dancer? And when she was a teenager she’d put on secret performances to raise money to fund the Dutch resistance against the Nazis? She was so cool!